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- Monday, July 1st, 2008 - 9:04 AM EDT - The Orlando Business Journal
CLASSROOM PROJECT TO GET ECO HELP
The University Unitarian Universalist Society will get some free help to make its Sunday school
classroom a "green" building.
The Central Florida Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council announced July 1 it selected the
Orlando congregation's 2,100-square-foot classroom addition on McCulloch Road as the winner of its
2008 Legacy project.
The project will receive free energy and environmental design and green-building consulting services
from the chapter's Legacy team of architects, engineers, land planners, developers and landscaping
architects.
The project is intended to promote more green building projects throughout Central Florida.
Although the cost to build a green building may be greater than a traditional structure, it has lower
operating costs over the life of the building, according to the California Integrated Waste Management
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Legacy Project Scope 2008 (click for pdf)
THE LEGACY PROJECT (click for pdf)
- Click here to read an
article titled "CoStar Study Finds Energy Star, LEED Bldgs. Outperform Peers"
Click here to download the study
- Click here to read a presentation given at the April USGBC Centeral FL meeting about the City of Orlando's Green Initiative
- Click here to read a presentation given at the April USGBC Centeral FL meeting about
Orange County’s Climate Change Initiative
- Click here to read about Green Works Orlando, Mayor Dyer's Green Initiative
- Click here to read about a new "green" health care facility in Florida
- Click here to read about a new downtown development with LEED ambitions
- Click here to read about a local architecture firm "walking the walk"
- Read here about global warming's impact on OUC's facilities expansion.
- Read here about how the water crisis is affecting us locally.
- USGBC Board of Directors Update - Click here for a snapshot of the USGBC board meeting that occurred just before Greenbuild 2007.
- On June 26, 2007 USGBC National Chairperson Sandy Wiggins spoke to the USGBC Central Florida Chapter and local community at the Orange County Regional History Center on the future of LEED and the important role Central Florida will play in the National Green Building Agenda. The mayor was also there and made a historic speech on the green strategies that Orange County is currently implementing. Here's the location of the power point presentation for those of you that missed it:
(click for pdf of slides) (click for pdf of photos)
- Here's the draft of the new BSR/ASHRAE/IESNA/USGBC Standard 189P, Standard for the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings which is available for review and comment. The 45-day public review extends from May 25., 2007 through July 7, 2007. (click for pdf)
- Download the 2008 Sustainable Sponsorship Package. The Sustainable Sponsorship Package for the upcoming year 2009 will be available soon.
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