Buildings

Northeast CHPS 3.0: The New and Improved School Performance Protocol

By Brian Buckley | Tue, April 8, 14

The State of our Schools

April 8, 2014 is National Healthy Schools Day. Coordinated by the Healthy Schools Network, National Healthy Schools Day is meant to raise awareness of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) issues affecting our schools’ faculty, staff, and students.

Buildings

CHPS

High Performance Schools

Indoor environmental quality

National Healthy Schools Day

Northeast CHPS

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Technology, Partnerships Help Shelters Save Energy and Money

By Dave McMahon | Fri, February 7, 14

Dave McMahon, Co-Executive Director of Dismas House

Energy costs can be an enormous burden to social service providers who typically operate on a shoe-string, and often in older, in-efficient facilities.

Buildings

Guest Contributors

Combined heat and power

Dismas Housing

Energy Efficiency

Low Income Energy Affordability Network

low-income

Massachusetts Clean Energy Center

National Grid

Worcester Green Low Income Housing Coalition

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Ma. StretchCode or: How I Learned to Stop Updating and Love the Timebomb

By Kevin Rose | Tue, February 4, 14

Unless Massachusetts communities push to update the state’s Stretch Code before July 1, 2014, the 20% boost in building energy efficiency it provides will evaporate, creating market confusion and violate the very concept behind its inception.

Buildings

Building Energy Codes

DOER

Green Communities Act

IECC

MA stretch code

U.S. Department of Energy

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NE-CHPS Paves the Way Forward for Schools

By Carolyn Goldthwaite | Tue, January 21, 14

When you think back to your days spent in school what do you remember? Was it a favorite teacher? The countless trips to the vending machine between classes? A visceral rush of excitement after your crush unexpectedly sat next to you in biology?

Buildings

Uncategorized

2012 International Energy Conservation Code

CHPS

Energy Efficiency

High Performance Buildings

High Performance Schools

Retrofit

webinar

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Building Rating Helps Markets Understand and Value Energy Efficiency

By Allison Webster | Tue, August 27, 13

Everyone knows that one way to judge the performance of a car is by its fuel efficiency, and car manufacturers love to crow about cars with high 'miles per gallon' ratings. But, what if there was a way to assess “MPG” for buildings that gave potential owners or renters a sense of how much it would cost to operate their building over time?

Buildings

BERDO

Boston

Building Energy Rating and Disclosure Ordinance