September 2010

Australia: How Green Is My Building? Building Energy Efficiency Laws Are About To Begin

City of Richmond, owner; Woodland Construction Inc., contractor; 1408 Westover Hills Blvd., alterations, $454,524. Bacon Housing SCP LP, owner; JDB Properties, contractor; 1100 Hull St., alterations, $818,896. Stony Point School Inc., owner; Conquest Moncure & Dunn Inc., contractor; 3400 Stony Point Road, education building, $731,286.

The government is planning more policies to promote investment in green industries and create about 40,000 green jobs in renewable energy by 2022.

The real estate agency CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) is offering financial support to encourage its clients to take up green building practices, says Richie Lee, executive director for energy and sustainability in Asia.

Trinity United Methodist Church officials hope to begin building a new 68,000-square-foot worship center in west Arlington early next year.

After an energy audit on their building in Lakewood, the Learning Source has started making major improvements that will help more more people read, write and speak a second language.

Newtown — George School students will learn history in seven new, high-tech, and eco-friendly classrooms when the renovated McFeely building opens for classes on the first day of school, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. A seven-month green renovation has transformed the McFeely building, once the school’s library, into the home of the history department. Each of its new classrooms has natural daylight …

Newtown, PA — George School is proud to announce that its Learning Commons and Mollie Dodd Anderson Library has been awarded LEED® Gold certification from the Green Building Certification Institute under the standards established by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). George School is the first school in Bucks County and one of eighteen in Pennsylvania to achieve LEED certification …

For years Janice Hampton had wanted a garden shed — a place for her tools, honeybee supplies and such.

Today it is politically correct to be “green.” After all, howcan any elected official oppose the preservation of the ‘aina andstill be elected to office?