The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) has announced a new platform, called arc, intended to measure building performance and track incremental improvements as projects move toward LEED certification.
Echoing the pro-business message USGBC CEO Rick Fedrizzi touted at the Greenbuild 2015 opening plenary, the closing session featured four executives whose industry-leading companies have made sustainability a core part of their operations.
That the Greenbuild 2015 celebration party was held at Washington, D.C.’s Newseum — a 2008 building by Polshek Partnership Architects (now Ennead) that sits across the street from the city’s monumental core — shouldn’t have been much of a surprise.
Last week in New Orleans the U.S. Green Building Council fulfilled a promise it made—after hurricanes Katrina and Rita pounded the Gulf Coast in 2005—to bring the organization’s annual Greenbuild show to the Big Easy.
In what organizers call a “makeover” of the traditional opening plenary, the U.S. Green Building Council has announced that former vice president Al Gore will deliver the keynote address at the 2009 Greenbuild convention, followed by a performance by nine-time Grammy winner Sheryl Crow.
Former President Bill Clinton took the stage at the U.S. Green Building Council’s sixth annual Greenbuild conference in Chicago yesterday morning and, before a crowd of 6,000 people who gathered to hear his keynote address, described the green building movement the nation’s largest economic opportunity since the country mobilized for World War II. “It’s not going to be easy, but we have to move away from the carbon economy,” Clinton said, adding that he considers green building to be “perhaps the most important cause we can be involved in today.” In a lightly political speech—we are facing an election year,
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is set to launch its LEED-for-Homes program at the organization’s annual Greenbuild conference in Chicago next week.
