Operations/Management

Reducing Healthcare Costs Through Sustainability

How will the Affordable Healthcare Act affect healthcare facilities?
April 2, 2013
How will the Affordable Healthcare Act affect healthcare facilities?
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Complex System Management

Integrated control systems are the key to managing complex energy-efficient buildings.
April 2, 2013
Managing complex energy-efficient systems is daunting, but doable!
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The Value of Building Data

Implementing a measurement and verification plan is an essential component to meet facility sustainability goals.
April 2, 2013
Implementing a measurement and verification plan is an essential component to meet facility sustainability goals.
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Green Buildings Mean Green Cleaning

Help enhance facility care with sustainable floor cleaning equipment and practices.
March 1, 2013

 Green cleaning is a key factor in facility care programs today.  


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Achieving Energy Reductions with Evaporative Cooling

Facility managers looking to cost-effectively save energy can turn to a simple, time-honored idea.
January 4, 2013

Energy prices are up—way up—and no one has been spared the pain of their endless meteoric rise. 


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Significance for Sustainability in Energy Audits

December 17, 2012

When wondering how to save energy effectively, energy audits may be the answer.


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Setting the Example in Sustainability

Sustainable food sourcing and operations programs at Marist College, N.Y., empower and educate the students, faculty and staff.
December 3, 2012

 As college campuses across the country make great strides in sustainability, a few groundbreaking institutions have set the stage for success.  


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Behavioral Change

A building and its operations are only as sustainable as those who use them.
November 5, 2012

 Relative to reducing energy consumption, we could define behavioral change as: A purposeful modification of an individual’s or group’s previous mode of operation/action.  


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Rotten Fruit

Why ‘picking low-hanging fruit’ hurts efficiency and how to fix that problem.
November 5, 2012

Sometimes a failure can arrive disguised as a success.


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Toxic Substances

PBT source reduction is essential to keeping human health from going critical.
October 1, 2012

The LEED for Healthcare System is leading the way with credits that deal with PBT source reduction. But why?


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 Interview with Glenn Carels, principal with the design firm for California State University, Northridge, (CSUN)'s Student Recreation Center.
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May 2013

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The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability

In The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability, 7group's principals and integrative design pioneer Bill Reed introduce design and construction professionals to the concepts of whole building design and whole systems.

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EDC CrosswordWelcome to EDC's crossword puzzle. This puzzle was created specifically for the green building industry by Myles Mellor; all the clues and answers relate to industry terms. Click to view the interactive version of the puzzle that appeared in print. Or if you prefer,  you'll find a PDF link to this month's puzzle and solution.