Resources

Research Reports by ECON Staff

VERGE and the Built Environment

By Rob Watson

An analysis of five converging trends that will dramatically affect the built environment.

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The Green Building Market and Impact Report 2011

By Rob Watson

Green building market rebounds 40 percent and energy and water saving performance improves. However, significant additional progress is possible and indeed necessary.

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The Green Building Market and Impact Report 2010

By Rob Watson

LEED registrations drop 70 percent, but certifications grow. New data sheds better light on actual performance.

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The Green Building Market and Impact Report 2009

By Rob Watson

The Green Building Market and Impact Report is a pioneering comprehensive assessment of the environmental performance of LEED buildings. The report also forecasts green building market development for the next 20 years.

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Podcasts/Webcasts

VERGE and the Built Environment Webcast

By GreenBiz.com

An analysis of five converging trends that will dramatically affect the built environment.

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Green Building Market and Impact Report 2011 Webcast

By GreenBiz.com

The Green Building Market and Impact Report is a pioneering comprehensive assessment of the environmental performance of LEED buildings. The report forecasts green building market development for the next 20 years.

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Green Building Market and Impact Report 2010 Webcast

By GreenBiz.com

LEED registrations drop 70 percent, but certifications grow. New data sheds better light on actual performance. With Ed Lonergan, CEO of Diversey, Inc.

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Green Building Market and Impact Report, 2009 Webcast

By GreenBiz.com

Data on the land, water, energy, material and indoor environmental impacts of the LEED Green Building Rating System.With Ed Lonergan, CEO of Diversey, Inc.

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Webcast: Bringing Building Efficiency to Light

By GreenBiz.com

By thinking about lighting more holistically, building engineers and facility managers can optimize other parts of building operations, multiplying savings.

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Articles Authored by ECON Staff

Industry:

Next-Gen Buildings: Too smart to fail or too busy to think?

By Rob Watson, John Pitcher and Minot Frye

Are Big Data, the Internet of Things and Building Information Modeling an opportunity to take our built environment to the next level or will they result in an expensive and unproductive morass?

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The Dashboard Delusion, Part I

By John Pitcher & Rob Watson with Shaun Hill

Investors seem to continually throw money into the same failed energy dashboard strategies over and over again.

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The Dashboard Delusion, Part II

By John Pitcher & Rob Watson with Shaun Hill

Dashboards should be viewed on their true merits as risk mitigation tools and not speculative investments purchased based on some unknowable ROI.

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Attention USA Today: Green buildings need to make financial sense

By Rob Watson

USA Today’s articles on LEED and the US Green Building Council reflect underlying misconceptions about the intersection between the economy and the environment.

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Are Green Buildings Really Losing Their Appeal?

By Rob Watson

There is significant overlap between green building goals and commercial property real estate portfolio goals.

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