Synapse: This Week's News for LA’s Best Buildings
Nancy Sutley: What Does Building Back Better Mean For Climate & Clean Energy?
Earlier this month, federal courts began deliberations on the legality of the Trump Administration’s repeal of the landmark 2013 Clean Power Plan. Just weeks ahead of the 2020 general election, The Planning Report interviewed LADWP Chief Sustainability Officer, Nancy Sutley, who oversaw the plan's development as Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality under President Obama. Sutley shares her insights into crafting federal sustainability practice and her outlook on what a potential Biden administration might do on Day 1 to prioritize climate and clean energy. Her opinions on politics or a possible Biden Administration are hers alone
How Can Energy Efficiency Programs Support Building Performance Standards?
Multiple U.S. cities and one state — all of which have active energy efficiency programs — have recently adopted mandatory building performance standards (BPS) that require existing commercial buildings (and often multifamily buildings) to meet energy benchmarks. ACEEE interviewed BPS program administrators, utility and other energy efficiency program administrators, other experts and some state utility regulators for their views on the role of efficiency programs in BPS implementation. ACEEE discusses the role of energy efficiency programs before and after BPS take effect, including approaches to crediting them for the energy savings they achieve during these two different periods.
Better Buildings: Three Multifamily Partners Lead Way in Disaster Resilience Assessment and Planning
Resilience – or disaster preparedness – has direct ties to energy efficiency and is an important part of any organization’s portfolio. Three Better Buildings Challenge multifamily partners are leading the way to assess risk and prepare their housing portfolios for extreme weather events. Jonathan Rose Companies, WinnCompanies, and Preservation of Affordable Housing are creating portfolio-wide disaster resilience assessment strategies and implementing measures to protect residents and property.
Listen: The Hidden Carbon in Our Buildings by the Interchange
This week on Greentech Media’s ‘The Interchange’: an interview with Ed Mazria on the embedded emissions in the built environment.
Virtual Event: Resiliency - Adapting Sustainability Under Pandemic Conditions
Our lives have changed significantly in the last few months as the COVID-19 pandemic shifted how we work, live, and interact with the world around us. At this event hosted by UCLA IoES Corporate Partners Program, speakers will explore how organizations are adapting their sustainability programs under pandemic conditions.
Topics of discussion may include whether sustainability priorities have shifted, how sustainability programs will allow us to 'build back better', and what the long term impacts of the pandemic could be on sustainability commitments. Their speakers span the technology, building, and transportation sectors.
When: October 29, 4-5:30pm PDT
