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- Green Advantage in the News: Certification Benefits Building Professionals
- Welcome to GA's New COO and General Counsel
- Announcing Green Advantage's New Director of Certification
- Green Tip from Matthew Wylie of Texas
- Green Advantage at GreenBuild
- California Adopts Green Building Code
- Making a Difference: GreenFleet!
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California Adopts Green Building Code
Article courtesy of Scott Sklar, President, The Stella Group, Ltd., of Washington, D.C.
A Green Building Code has been adopted by the California Building Standards Commission that policymakers say is the first of its kind in the nation. The new code will be voluntary until 2010 when its provisions are expected to become mandatory. The code sets targets for energy efficiency, water consumption, dual plumbing systems for potable and recyclable water, diversion of construction waste from landfills, and use of materials in construction and design. The standards cover commercial and residential construction in the public and private sectors. The green thresholds include a 15% reduction in energy use compared to current standards. All the measures would at least be comparable to the requirements of a "silver rating" under the (LEED) standards.
See combined_green_et_7_08.pdf
The Stella Group, Ltd.. is a strategic marketing and policy firm for clean distributed energy users and companies which include advanced batteries and controls, biofuels (biodiesels, butanol, ethanol and cellulosics), energy efficiency and chp, fuel cells, geoexchange, heat engines, minigeneration (natural gas), microhydropower, modular biomass, photovoltaics, small wind, and solar thermal (including daylighting, water heating, industrial preheat, building air-conditioning, and electric power generation), and waste heat. Scott Sklar is coauthor of A Consumer Guide to Solar Energy and The Forbidden Fuel: Power Alcohol in the Twentieth Century. See the Web site www.thestellagroupltd.com.
