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Exploring Energy Efficiency: Q&A Session with Wayne Robertson of Energy Ace

It bears repeating that seventy-two percent of all electricity consumption and thirty-nine percent of all energy consumption takes place in America’s buildings. Using energy efficiency strategies in modernization or major renovation projects can reduce those electricity and en¬ergy consumptions by up to fifty percent.

The Case for Green Globes versus LEED

One of the few people in Georgia who knows a heckuva lot about Green Globes argued in a presentation to architects Friday that the upstart program has advantages over the more popular LEED system for rating green buildings — particularly when it comes to small commercial projects.

“The Gift that Keeps on Giving” Natural Body Spa Shares Their Green Domino Effect

(Keep reading for a special offer exclusively for our Energy Ace readers!)

Natural Body Spa and Shop was recently named the recipient of the 2010 Stevie Award for Women in Business' ‘Environmental Stewardship Program of the Year.’  The Stevie Awards selection committee, comprised of business advisors and entrepreneurs, based their decision on Natural Body Spa’s significant and innovative organization of environmental resources and stewardship. 

Practice What You Preach

By Wayne Robertson of Energy Ace and featured in the AIA Georgia Design Awards magazine.

Energy Ace, Inc., is a full-service sustainability consulting firm specializing in green building, energy conservation, and environmental stewardship.  When it came time to move to new space, the Energy Ace group felt we should “practice what we preach” and develop the greenest office space we could and do it in a way that would exemplify our slogan “Green Made SimpleTM.”

Tips for Facility Managers to Smooth the LEED-EBOM Certification Process

There are more than 650,000 Web pages about LEED and the LEED certification process, according to Google. Many days, you probably feel like you have to comb through them all for the advice you're looking for.

The Best Teacher: Five Lessons learned From 100+ LEED Projects

“Experience is the best teacher,” someone (probably Adam) once said. For LEED projects, that maxim holds especially true because ours is a new field without a long history of accepted wisdom, rules of thumb, tricks of the trade, or other well-documented and long-held truths from which the practitioner can learn.

Green Guaranteed fact sheet

Along with our new look, Energy Ace has also updated all of our fact sheets.

Please click here to download the first fact sheet we've added to the website: Green Guaranteedtm

Let us know if you have any questions or would like to hear more about Green Guaranteedtm

Thank you!

Bottom Line is the Key to Green

By Debra Hazel  www.globest.com

NEW YORK CITY-The global focus on sustainability seems to have shifted from fad to finance, as financial results continue to increase in importance for those dealing with green buildings, said the latest Global Property Sustainability Survey from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Green Buildings: Fewer Sick Days, Higher Rents

Posted by: Chris Palmeri businessweek.com
Environmentally-friendly construction practices have gotten a lot of hype over the past few years but do they really pay off as an investment? A new study found that tenants in green buildings experience increased productivity and fewer sick days. The research also found that that green buildings have lower vacancy rates and higher rents than non-green counterparts.

LEED Certification or Your Money Back

Posted August 25th, 2009

Earning LEED certification can be a fickle process, subject to complex credit interpretations and appeals, heavy documentation, budgetary considerations and ultimately, a ruling from the U.S. Green Building Council's sister organization, the Green Building Certification Institute. For those reasons, LEED consultants -- even ones that have worked on hundreds of projects -- have made a point not to promise certification to their clients.

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