Successful Strategies for High Performance Green Buildings
The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) will unveil its latest product, LEED™ for Existing Buildings, in March at the National Facilities Management & Technology conference in Baltimore, Md. Since the Council unveiled its first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design award three years ago it has rapidly become the industry standard for benchmarking newly constructed and remodeled buildings. This spring, after extensive member input and a year-long pilot program, the Council will roll out LEED-EB, a tool for measuring the greenness of ongoing facility operations in existing buildings. The LEED product line for commercial interiors is currently in the pilot stage and LEED for multiple buildings, core and shell, and residential are in the planning stages.

Facility Slated for Completion in May 2003
The James H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering and Sciences is designed to be the headquarters of Stanford University's Bio-X program.

Technology Vision from CB Richard Ellis Helps Integrate Fragmented Landscape
Having slashed personnel expenses by trimming headcount, corporate America has now fixed on occupancy costs as the next target in its war on spending. According to Georgia Perkey, senior managing director of the Strategic Technology Solutions group at CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) in San Francisco, this latest economy drive subjects real estate management practices to a more sophisticated analysis. Traditional questions like how many work orders a particular business unit generates have been replaced by more complex inquiries: How much business is being done with an individual vendor? What kinds of discounts are available? Is this the type of repair the landlord should pay for?

As with any technology implementation, controlling the quality of the data being input is critical to the overall integrity of the system.

Design Reflects a Research-Based Philosophy of Education
The new Peale Science Center at Hope College in Holland, Mich., is nearing completion following a $10-million renovation of an existing 60,000-sf building and construction of a new $26-million facility that adds more than 90,000 sf of new classroom, lab, and research space. The new facility is scheduled to open in September 2003, with renovation of the original building targeted for completion by September 2004.