2011-09-19 16:34:16 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog
Proving that even the biggest and oldest buildings can fulfil the retofit design philosphy, New York’s Empire State Building, completed in 1931, has been awarded US Green Building Council LEED certification, making it the tallest and inevitably most well-known building in the US to do so. Guaranteed to reduce the building’s energy consumption by more than 38 percent and saving US$4.4 million (NZ$5.3 million) in energy costs along the way, the retrofit improvements also reduce carbon emissions by an estimated 105,000 metric tons over 15 years.
2011-05-27 09:00:00 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog
Blending commercial needs with sustainable building principles can prove very successful, as Peddle Thorp Architect's double win at the 2011 New Zealand Architecture Awards demonstrate. The firm won awards in both the Sustainability and Commercial categories, something it says shows a significant shift in thinking taking place in international commercial architecture.
2011-03-24 13:29:39 // Stephen Olsen
// The Idealog Blog
Before delivering his keynote speech at today’s Green Property Summit in Auckland, influential “environment capitalist” Anthony Malkin, of New York City, had an opportunity yesterday to meet with Prime Minister John Key to talk about energy efficient retrofits and how the rebuilding of Christchurch can benefit from “doing the simple stuff first”. He says dollars spent on retrofits in existing bulk energy commercial buildings have a payback you can't get from new builds, no matter how highly they might rate in innovative architecture terms.
2011-02-25 06:00:00 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog
If you’re hosting a green building property event in New Zealand, you can’t do much better than securing the owner of New York’s iconic Empire State Building, Anthony Malkin, as the keynote speaker. And that’s just what the folks behind the Green Property Summit 2011 have done.
