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Will Green Globes™ defeat LEED®

Green Globes™ has stepped up to compete with LEED® in the United States. Read this article from BuildingGreen.com and tell me what you think. Click Here>>

Greenbuild 2005 Now Open for Registration

Registration is now open for the U.S. Green Building Council's annual conference and exposition - Greenbuild! Once a year, industry professionals gather for three days of intensive educational seminars covering the latest advances in green building design, construction, financing and building management. This year's conference will be held November 9-11, 2005 in Atlanta. Click Here to Register Today!>>

Click here to visit the Greenbuild 2005 conference Web site.

LEED® in Specifications

Look, Listen & Learn!

In this session attendees will learn how specification writers can play an important role in qualifying a project for LEED® certification. The session will also cover how specification writers can ensure that LEED requirements are met during the bidding and construction phases of the project. The presentation will include practical examples of specifications and sample projects.

In this session participants will:

• Learn how to write specifications that incorporate LEED requirements.
• Understand how to incorporate LEED requirements into bidding and contract documents.
• Determine ways to monitor LEED requirements during bidding and construction phases of a project.

Credit: .15 CEUs, 1.5 ECHs and 1.5 LU Hours

Register Now! www.csinet.org (click on Event Registration)

"Commissioning on Purpose"

One of the principle objectives of the NCBC conference has been to promote commissioning to become "business as usual" in the design and construction process for new buildings. This was the dream of Nancy Benner who was a guiding light with a vision for a new industry. In many ways, Nancy's vision has become a reality in some industry sectors and continues to grow every year. However, the authors believe that it is time to take Nancy's visions to the next evolutionary level.
This article, written by two commissioning professionals with a combined experience of over 30 years in the commissioning field, will reflect on the nature of the commissioning industry today and will present a concept of what commissioning could be in the future. This paper will explain why commissioning professionals, working with building owners, designers, constructors, operators, and industry organizations, need to lead an evolution in the way we design, construct, operate and maintain buildings to center the entire process around the purpose of the building.
The authors believe the Commissioning Authority could and should be the enitity that represents and communicates the building purpose from the initial concept phase throughout the lifetime of the building. This paper will discuss some of the current obstacles to achieving this evolutionary concept and will suggest ways of thinking about buildings that could lead to large order-of magnitude improvements in the long term performance of buildings, while at the same time achieving substantial savings in life-cycle costs and significant improvements in reducing the environmental impact of a building.

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Sustainability verified through Commissioning. It's not always a pretty picture!

Sustainability and Commissioning

Can a building or structure truly be sustainable without being Commissioned?

What do you think?

First Post using PocketBlogger

This is my first post using PocketBlogger on my Dell Axim X50v. Now, I can blog from anywhere! Cool Stuff!

Circuit City Goes Green

Construction is under way on Circuit City's first-ever Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified facility, at Abercorn Common, Savannah, Ga.

C2C Home Exhibit

A selection of the C2C Home entries is on display in Charlottesville, Virginia from March 4 – March 30, 2005. Please contact the Charlottesville Community Design Center (CCDC) for more information at http://www.cvilledesign.org/ or 434.984.2232.

Welcome!

Welcome to the CxCentral.com Blog called CxGreen! My goal for this blog is to bring together two communities - the Commissioning (Cx) Community and the Sustainable Design (Green) Community. As with any goal you must set milestones. This blog is my first milestone!