Green Building Trends of 2010 - Isabel Lopez

Green Building Trends of 2010

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Earth Advantage Institute is a non-profit organization based in Portland that certifies green buildings.
Here are some of the trends discussed by the Earth Advantage Institute:

1. The smart grid and connected home.  The smart grid and connected home is expected to grow in 2010 as utilities continue to make upgrades to the grid for more effective generation, storage and distribution of power, and as smart-grid manufacturers develop  custom and web-based display panels that show real-time energy use, including appliance energy use.

2. Energy labeling for homes and office buildings.  Legislators in Oregon and Washington are beginning to talk about the Energy Performance score. In addition, more accurate energy rating systems push for the need to put a sticker on homes, just like on cars.

3. Increased use of building information modeling (BIM) software. Building information modeling (BIM) software is also expected to continue its expansion with new add-on tools with increasingly accurate algorithms for energy modeling and embedded energy properties for many materials and features.  We’ll start to see an increasing use of BIM, especially with contractors.

4. Buy-in to green building by the financial community. Lenders and insurers now see the value of green. They realize that green home owners, for the most part, are more responsible, less likely to default, and more likely to maintain their property.

5. Reducing the size  of homes. A larger home no longer provides the equity that it once did. With the possibility of rising interest rates, rising energy costs, and conservative home valuations, expect to see homes that are more modest in size.

Source: Earth Advantage Institute
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Translation in Spanish

El Instituto Earth Advantage es una organización sin animo de lucro localizada en Portland  certifica que las  construcciones  sean "green" ó digamos eco-eficientes. Aqui están 5  tendencias en construcción que el instituto discutió para el año 2010:

1. La red inteligente y "connected home" son una tendencia que va a aumentar para el 2010,a medida que los electrodomésticos hacen actualizaciones para hacer el almacenamiento y distribución de energía más eficiente. En los electrodomésticos se va a hacer visible mediante pequeñas pantallas la energía que por ejemplo un eletrodoméstico consuma.

 2. Se está hablando inclusive en futuro de poner un   "sticker" a las casas para determinar su desempeño en consumo de energía, parecido a los "stickers" que tienen los carros.
3. IBM que es un programa de computación acerca de modelación de información para construcciones. Mediante este programa se hace modelos de como optimizar el uso de energía y además de las propiedades de la energía en  ciertos materiales.
4. Los prestamistas y aseguradores ahoran están viendo el valor del movimiento verde(green). Ellos se han dado cuenta que los propietarios de casas ecologicas, en su gran mayoría son muy responsables y tieden mayormente a no fallar en pagos.
5. Reducción en el tamaño de las casas: Una casa más grande no produce la rentabilidad que tenía en el pasado. Con la posibilidad de altos costos de electricidad se espera que los tamaños de la casas tengan un tamaño más modesto.


Tomado de :Earth Advantage Institute

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