Archive for 'Green Building'
Even if you are already benchmarking, please review these tips if your building was subject to the October 3, 2011 reporting deadline (>50,000 single-family, non-residential buildings).
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Posted: April 30th, 2012 under Building Connections, dpdINFO Newsletter, Green Building.
Tags: energy benchmarking, Green Building
Buildings 10,000 square feet or greater (including multifamily buildings of five or more units) now have until at least October 1, 2012 to comply with Seattle’s energy benchmarking and reporting program. In response to public input that more assistance and time is needed to comply, the City is evaluating the program and considering staggered reporting deadlines based on building size.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2012 under Building Connections, dpdINFO Newsletter, Green Building, Permit Pipeline Newsletter.
Tags: energy benchmarking, grace period, helpline, how to, reporting, workshops
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s BetterBricks and the City of Seattle offer free workshops for building owners, property managers and service providers to support compliance with the City of Seattle’s building energy benchmarking and disclosure ordinance.
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Posted: March 1st, 2012 under Building Connections, dpdINFO Newsletter, Green Building, Permit Pipeline Newsletter.
Tags: energy disclosure, workshops
The December 2011 and January 2012 issues of dpdINFO provided some insight on The International Green Construction Code (IGCC), the IGCC’s relationship to LEED, and how these tools can be used as building blocks from which Seattle may continue to develop higher performance codes.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012 under Building Connections, dpdINFO Newsletter, Green Building, Permit Pipeline Newsletter.
Tags: green codes, LEED
The City Green Building team takes an exciting new step in 2012. Beginning in January, part of the “green team” will join forces with the Office of Sustainability and Environment (OSE). Staff focused on policy development will become part of OSE, and those focused on green codes and permitting will stay with the Department of Planning and Development (DPD), as part of the Operations Division. As this next step unfolds, both DPD and OSE will continue to develop and implement innovative approaches to building sustainable neighborhoods.
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Posted: January 9th, 2012 under Building Connections, Green Building, Top News Stories.
Tags: Green Building, Office of Sustainabilty & Environment
Since 1999, the City Green Building team has been working to make sustainable development standard practice in the City of Seattle – first working as an interdepartmental team from across multiple City departments and then as a combined, yet still multidisciplinary, unit within DPD. City Green Building is now moving on to our next iteration to better align our work with that of our colleagues working on environmental policy, sustainable communities and development services.
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Posted: January 3rd, 2012 under Building Connections, dpdINFO Newsletter, Green Building, Long-Range Planning, Top News Stories.
Tags: Green Building, sustainability
Since 2000, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has developed an array of green building tools to provide building owners and operators with a framework to identify and implement practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions. Participating buildings may achieve a level of LEED certification representing the amount of high performance measures successfully incorporated into the project. Since its inception, LEED has transformed the way built environments are designed, constructed, and operated, and has helped to make sustainable building practices more commonplace.
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Posted: January 3rd, 2012 under Building Connections, dpdINFO Newsletter, Green Building.
Tags: Code Updates, Green Building, LEED
Today the Seattle Planning Commission released Housing Seattle, a report that analyzes housing information from the Census, American Community Survey as well as market data.
“The action strategy we put forward today will help Seattle address important gaps in our housing market and disparities among certain segments of the population,” stated Planning Commission Chair Leslie Miller, “Seattle is a stronger, more prosperous city if we have diversity in people who live and work here.”
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Posted: December 9th, 2011 under Building Connections, Green Building, Long-Range Planning, Planning Commission, Top News Stories.
Tags: housing, Long Range Planning, planning commission
A green building code known as the International Green Construction Code (IgCC) is currently under development by the International Code Council (ICC) and slated to be published in March of 2012. This code will respond to the need for high performance measures related to site development, material resource conservation, energy conservation, water conservation, indoor environmental quality, and commissioning.
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Posted: December 1st, 2011 under Building Connections, dpdINFO Newsletter, Green Building.
Tags: green building code, international code council
The Sustainable Buildings and Sites Policy for municipal facilities in Seattle, Resolution 31326, was signed by Mayor McGinn on October 12, following the unanimous vote of approval from City Council. The legislation increases standards for the design, construction and operation of City buildings and sites in order to support city-wide goals for sustainable development.
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Posted: December 1st, 2011 under Building Connections, dpdINFO Newsletter, Green Building.
Tags: capital projects, Green Building, sustainability
