EGB FEATURES By KATERI CALLAHAN and JEFFREY HARRIS, Alliance to Save Energy, Washington, D.C. With initial signs of recovery in the housing and commercial real-estate markets, now is the time to look beyond incremental refinements and consider approaches to accelerate the pace of energy-efficiency improvements in new and existing commercial buildings. Read Full Story Advertisement  Rick Fedrizzi to Discuss the Role of People in Green Building at the 2012 Carrier Global Engineering Conference
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EGB NEWS A third public-comment period for a proposed update of the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC's) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green-building certification program will be open March 1-20. Read Full Story A free publication offering a comprehensive, practical approach to making sustainability improvements to public- and private-sector properties based on federal-government guidelines is available from the IFMA (International Facility Management Association) Foundation. Read Full Story On Jan. 6, the Consortium for Energy Efficiency’s (CEE’s) Board of Directors approved revisions to the CEE Commercial Unitary AC (Air Conditioning) and HP (Heat Pump) Specification. Read Full Story Camfil Farr, provider of air-purifying technology and energy-efficient air-filter solutions, recently received the 2011 Product of the Year Award in the Air Quality and Climate category from Environmental Protection magazine. Read Full Story Jason Ryan Dorsey, perhaps better known as "The Gen Y Guy," a best-selling author and award-winning entrepreneur with a unique talent for teaching ready-to-use actions and creative strategies that quickly increase cross-generational performance, will share his insights on generational differences in the workplace during the opening keynote event for Mechanical Systems Week 2012, to be held Sept. 19-21 in Chicago. Read Full Story | 
