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Office Buildings As Peaker Plants

Posted on May 18, 2008

My speaking schedule last week took me to Toronto, to a conference of commercial building owners and developers, along with a corps of product and service purveyors that do business with them. It was a good time to talk about the future of office buildings, looking beyond LEED and other green-building considerations to examine the role of buildings in a cleaner energy future.First, a little context. I've long maintained that the same constellation of forces that are requiring us to re-examine our energy generation and use worldwide growing energy demand, depleting oil stocks, constrained a...

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