Green Building Megatrends

Megatrends 2013

Green Building

Jerry Yudelson

Yudelson Associates

Take-Aways

• Multiple drivers• Performance counts• Local mandates

Take-Aways

Green Building Megatrends

• Commercial Sector Rebounds

• NGO & Government Side• Existing Buildings• Using the Cloud• Performance Disclosure• Water as Green Building

Issue• Solar Power Use• Local Mandates• Zero-Net-Energy

Buildings• Property Goes Global

10 Greening Megatrends

Commercial Sector Green Rebounds

Greening Government/NGOs

Greening Existing Buildings

• Switch Smart Hub — real time monitoring and control via cloud

• Monitoring and control• Non-proprietary• All over IP• All in real time• All via Web• All Cloud-hosted

• Fault detection

Building Energy Management: Cloud-based • Real-time • Big Data Analytics

www.switchautomation.com

• Set-point changes• Sustainability reporting• Investment decisions

Only Performance Counts!

Bullitt Center, Seattle, WA

Performance Disclosure: Living Building Challenge

Solon Corporate HQ, Berlin

Zero-Net-Energy Building

How Much Energy Should Buildings Use?

World’s Greenest Buildings: Research

One Bligh— Sydney, Australia

The Book

Next Big (Green) Thing:

WATER

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• Water/Energy Nexus• New Products• New Technologies• Apply Global Lessons

Mandatory disclosureWater-conserving designsNew construction LEED

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Local Mandates:

Zero-Net-Energy Buildings

NREL Research Support Facility I

Golden, CO

Solar Energy for Buildings

Johnson ControlsMilwaukee, WI

50,000 Global Green Buildings!

Epson Research, Japan

Where Are We Going?

Take-Aways

• Multiple drivers• Performance counts• Local mandates

A Greener Future

The race is on and. . .

. . .the winners will be Green!

THANK YOU!

greenbuildconsult.com/blogjerry@greenbuildconsult.com

@jerryyudelson

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