Green Buildings

Pam Parsons - The benefits of utilizing "green clean"

Spanier Building Maintenance together with building owners and their facility management teams are seeking to improve the environment in whi...

Green Product of the Month: Yardi Energy Solutions expands utility management options for multifamily properties

Yardi Energy Solutions has been expanded to offer a significantly enhanced suite of utility billing management products and services to mult...

Bruce Schlein - Low hanging fruit in the Big Apple

In the basement of Rockefeller Center, in a room that looks like it belongs in a brewery, is a prime example of an energy efficiency retrofi...

Cameron Bard - NYSERDA can help you convert from #6 oil

Recently, there's been a lot of attention among building owners paid to the upcoming phase out of N.Y.C.'s #6 heating oil, which alone is re...

Courtney Capshaw - Turn off the lights, turn on the savings with Con Edison's Energy Savings Programs

Did you know lighting consumes up to 40% of a commercial facility's electricity? The heat output from lights also impacts cooling loads putt...

Neil Gordon - What makes drapery sustainable?

In trying to determine what makes a drapery sustainable, I came up with five areas of focus: function, energy efficiency, recyclable materia...

Terry Mocherniak - Owners and managers combat high energy costs with innovations in lighting control and energy management technology

Electricity prices in N.Y. have generally stayed 40% or more above the national level during the last five years, according to the U.S. Depa...

Bruce Hoernecke - Environmental benefits of cloud computing

Business owners are continually seeking ways to streamline operations and reduce expenses. Cloud computing has proven to be an asset in this...

Constantine Mantopoulos - Energy management in the 21st century

Energy management means so many things to so many different people. If one is in Amsterdam, the term has a different meaning than it does to...

United Realty to hold "green" ribbon cutting of $8 million Motor Parkway Plaza; construction manager was Kulka Construction Management

The grand opening of Motor Pwy. Plaza, one of L.I.'s greenest combo retail and commercial office facilites, will be held on June 30th. Princ...