Editor's Note

Welcome to Sustainable Facility's eNews for November 2009

A few months ago, I asked our eNews readers if you were planning on attending this year's Greenbuild. A lot of you indicated that you were unfamiliar with this green-focused show. Well, the show is happening next week, and Sustainable Facility will be reporting from the show floor all next week via our USGBC microsite in conjunction with ED+C magazine. If you're unfamiliar with the show and would like to learn more, or if you just can't make it, this is a great way to see the highlights of the show that's all about building and maintaining green facilities.

In the meantime, we are already accepting submissions of products making an appearance at this year's show. If you have a product that's going to be on display, send a brief description and product image to me at teald@bnpmedia.com so we can post it to the site. Remember to include your booth number!  

I also want to take a moment to thank everyone who attended our recent webinar, Beyond Cool & Sustainable - The Five E's of High-Performance Roofing . It was a great success. If you were unable to attend the webinar live, you can still sign up for the archived version and earn 1.0 AIA-HSW-SD learning unit and 1.0 GBCI CE hour.

Need more GBCI CE hours? Then check out our webinar Open Forum: Sustainable Interior Design for the Facilities Manager. Be sure to visit www.EDCmag.com/Webinars for a full listing of all of our webinars. 

Cheers,

Derrick Teal
Sustainable Facility Managing Editor

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Working Adults are Willing to Sacrifice Comfort to Save Energy?
According to a new survey of office workers commissioned by Johnson Controls, sixty-nine percent of respondents said they would be willing to sacrifice their preferred ideal temperature in the office to help their company conserve energy.

EPA's WaterSense Label Available for First Commercial Building Product
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released its first WaterSense specification for a commercial building product. WaterSense labeled flushing urinals will use 50 percent less water than standard urinals, saving businesses 4,000 gallons of water per year for every model installed.

Firestone Building Products Introduces New Energy Solutions Division
Firestone Building Products Company, LLC introduced a new business division -- Firestone Energy Solutions -- at Solar Power International. According to the company, this new division is committed to providing products, systems and services that assist in conservation and the production of energy for the commercial building envelope.

Report: Installed Cost of Solar Photovoltaic Systems in the U.S. Fell in 2008
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) released a new study on the installed costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the U.S., showing that the average cost of these systems declined by more than 30 percent from 1998 to 2008.

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