by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium. “Call Me, Maybe” may have been omnipresent during the summer of 2012, but the title of this movement of our Energy Symphony is “Call Mac, Maybe.” Why? Because maybe you should change your buying […]
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by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium. Humans make errors, but robots are perfect, right? Well, if you can automate some functions, you can remove human error. In this case, error means forgetting to turn the lights off when you leave […]
by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium. Our symphony continues with another dark movement. Plug load (electronics plugged into outlets) consumes 20-25% of a building’s energy use, whether or not the electronics are actually turned on! You’ve probably heard the terms […]
by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium When thinking about building energy efficiency, here’s an idea: let’s all agree to have no more bright ideas! He can have good ones and even great ones, but no more bright ones. Why? As […]
By Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium I was recently invited to speak about energy efficiency in buildings at the Central Penn Business Journal’s annual Real Estate & Development Symposium, which was held on September 3 at the Hershey Lodge (if […]
By Timothy A. Warren, PE, LEED AP BD+C When is the last time someone told you to think small instead of big? I can think of no recent examples. I usually go with conventional wisdom. For example, at some point in our lives, most of us have dreamed of having the big house full of […]
By Timothy A. Warren, PE, LEED AP BD+C As Design Professionals, engineers have a responsibility to be stewards of the environment. Since buildings consume nearly 40% energy and 40% raw materials, while also producing 30% of the waste output in the United States, our approach to building design has immediate and long-term impacts to the […]
The Greenway Tech Centre has added another award to its growing trophy case. The project received the Overall Excellence award from the Green Building Association of Central Pennsylvania. The project is also recipient of a 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania Silver Award for urban redevelopment as well as a York County Community Foundation Eyster Award for […]
“They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.” – Big Yellow Taxi The early 1970’s, when this song premiered, were a time of environmental awakening for our nation. Green was good; asphalt was bad. Indiscriminate building activities were frowned upon by environmentalists who worried that the country was becoming over-developed. Protesters chained themselves to […]
by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM “Green Building.” Lately it seems as though these two words have been getting a lot of attention. One newspaper article touts the success of a recent “certified” Green Building; the next touts the million-dollar budget overrun of a planned Green Building. So what, exactly, is a green building, and […]
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