Buildings at Microsoft headquarters get “smart” makeover
PUBLISHED May 02, 2013
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” is one of the key organizing themes emphasized and often stated by C40 Chair, Mayor of New York City Michael R. Bloomberg.
Posts tagged with "energy efficiency"
Energy efficient building gains ground in Philadelphia
PUBLISHED March 28, 2013
C40 city Philadelphia is adding to its growing reputation as a leader in urban sustainability, with plans to create a more energy efficient building stock well underway. The city recently passed legislation requiring large commercial buildings to benchmark and report energy and water usage data to the Office of Sustainability, which will then in turn share this information with the public.
More buildings plan green makeovers with Retrofit Chicago
PUBLISHED March 08, 2013
Nine months since its inception, Retrofit Chicago’s Commercial Buildings Initiative is set to double in size. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Wednesday that 18 new buildings will participate in the program, bringing the total area to over 28 million square feet.
Update on Tokyo: Year two results from the world’s first urban cap-and-trade program
PUBLISHED February 07, 2013
On January 21, 2013, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced the results from the second year of its cap-and-trade program. Reports submitted from 934 facilities to the end of November 2012 show a further 10% emission reduction from reporting facilities below the year-one (2010) figures, bringing the second year total to an overall 23% emission reduction below the base-year emissions.
Spotlight on Tokyo: world’s first urban cap and trade program yields promising first-year results
PUBLISHED July 18, 2012
The results of the first fiscal year of operation of Tokyo’s cap and trade program are in – and they go far in validating the city’s groundbreaking initiative to introduce a market-based approach to emissions reductions at the urban scale. Reports on 1,159 building facilities show collective emissions reductions of 13 percent over base-year figures; this was due to the active implementation of more than 5,700 measures by building owners to reduce energy use and corresponding emissions.
