Jerry Yudelson 
Reinventing Green Building [EPUB ebook] 
Why Certification Systems Aren’t Working and What We Can Do About It

Dedication

Table of Contents

Chapter Titles and Subtitles (2-3 levels)

List of Tables

List of Figures

Foreword

Preface

Text

Part I – The Green Building Movement

1. The Technological Challenge: The Age of Algorithms and Big Data

a. The Great Convergence: Real Estate, IT, Energy and Sustainability

b. The Age of Algorithms

c. Bringing Green Building into the Age of Big Data

d. A Smorgasbord from the Internet of Things

i. Wireless Sensors

ii. Cheap Electrical Sub-meters

iii. Remote Building Audits

iv. Comfort via Mobile App

v. Automated Energy Star Reporting

e. Summary

2. Green Building Megatrends

a. Slower Growth for Certification

b. Energy Efficiency Leads the Way

c. Growth of Zero Net Energy Buildings

d. Enhanced Competition Among Rating Systems

e. Focus on Existing Buildings

f. Emergence of the Cloud

g. Performance Disclosure

h. Healthy Buildings and Materials Transparency

i. Solar Power

j. Water Conservation

k. Summary

3. The Green Building Movement

a. BREEAM

i. How Does BREEAM Work?

ii. Growth of BREEAM Projects

b. LEED

i. How Does LEED Work?

c. Green Globes

i. How Does Green Globes Work?

ii. Why Isn’t Green Globes Used More?

d. Living Building Challenge

i. How Does the Living Building Challenge Work?

ii. Growth of LBC Projects

e. Summary: Comparing the Main US Green Building Rating Systems

4. The US Green Building Movement Today

a. LEED Project History: Rapid Growth and Leveling Off

b. LEED Project Data in 2014

i. Commercial Offices

ii. K12 Schools

iii. Higher Education

iv. Retail

v. Public Sector

vi. Healthcare

c. Summary

5. The Case for Green Building

a. Carbon Reduction Goals for Buildings

b. The Business Case

i. Defining What’s Sustainable

ii. Reducing Future Operating Costs

iii. Providing Credibility for Sustainability Reporting and Green Claims

iv. Responding to Government Incentives and Policies

c. The Business Case for Green Homes

d. Business Cases for Specialized Owner Groups

i. Responsible Property Investing

ii. Government and Nonprofits: Walking the Talk

iii. Public Relations and Marketing

iv. Enhanced Competitive Position

e. Employees – The Elephant in the Room

f. Summary

Part II –Green Building Hits the Wall

6. Successes: Positive Impacts Of LEED And Other Systems

a. Defining Green

b. Integrated Design

c. Professional Education

d. Better Energy Performance

e. Building Commissioning

f. Better Products

g. Occupant Comfort and Satisfaction

h. Government Policy

i. Commercial Successes

j. The LEED Ecosystem

k. Summary

7. Failures: LEED’s Appeal is Quite Limited

a. LEED Fatigue

b. Designed to LEED

c. LEED Has Not Transformed The Built Environment

d. LEED’s Real Appeal is Quite Limited

e. LEED’s Customer Experience is Abysmal

f. Summary

8. LEED Fails to Transform the Market

a. Overall LEED Project Trends

b. Where LEED Seems to Work

c. Where LEED Fails to Work

d. Office Buildings

e. Education

i. K12 Schools

ii. Higher Education

f. Retail

g. Warehouse and Storage

h. Residential

i. Healthcare

j. International

k. Existing Buildings

l. Summary

9. Forensics: Why Green Building Has Hit the Wall

a. It’s Too Hard to Get Certified

b. Documentation is Cumbersome

c. Arbitrary and Capricious Rulings

d. It Costs Too Much

e. It Takes Too Long

f. There’s No Longer Much PR Value

g. Idealists Designed LEED; Realists Rule the Market

h. LEED is Too Rigid

i. Certified vs. “Certifiable”

j. The Market is Really Much Smaller Than Believed

k. Summary

10. Green Building Certification Costs Too Much

a. Does Green Building Cost More?

b. Rethinking Cost and Value

c. What I Learned as a Management Consultant

d. What Should Green Building Certification Cost?

i. Green Globes and BREEAM

e. The “LEED Tax”

f. Lessons from Other Sectors of the Economy

g. Summary

Part III – Looking for Solutions

11. LEED v4: A Bug Looking for a Windshield?

a. What is LEEDv4

b. Energy Efficiency in LEEDv4

c. The LEED Delivery Model is Still Wrong

d. LEEDv4 Is Not a Consensus Standard

e. LEEDv4 for New Construction

f. Cost Increases for LEEDv4

g. LEEDv4 for Operations and Maintenance

h. The Bottom Line

12. Current Alternatives Won’t Solve the Problem

a. Energy Star

b. Green Globes

c. Living Building Challenge

i. Net Zero Energy

ii. Net Zero Water

iii. Onsite Stormwater Management

d. BREEAM

e. National Green Building Standard

f. Green + Productive Workplace™

g. Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB)

h. WELL Building Standard

i. Summary

13. Is Certification Even Necessary?

a. Reducing Energy Use in Buildings

b. Regulation

i. Building Codes

c. Incentives

d. Policy

i. Transportation

ii. Entitlements

iii. 2030 Districts

e. Education and Transparency

a. An Australian Example

f. Net Zero Energy Buildings

g. Summary: Why Certify Green Buildings?

14. Focus on Carbon/Leverage Technology

a. Begin with the End in Mind – Architecture 2030

b. Begin with the End in Mind – Net Zero Energy Buildings

c. LEED, Green Globes, BREEAM and Cutting Carbon Emissions

d. Intelligent Buildings

e. Incorporating Green Building Data onto Cloud-Based Platforms

f. How Data Platforms Can Incorporate New Green Building Rating Systems

g. Energy Star Automated Reporting

h. The Microsoft Campus

i. Summary: Rekindling the Green Building Revolution

15. Reinventing Green Building

a. An Analogy: Painting vs. Sculpture

b. The Solution: Smart – Simple –Sustainable

c. Smart

d. Simple

e. Sustainable

f. One-Two-Three for Sustainability!

g. Summary: A New Green Building Manifesto

Part IV – The Future of Green Building

16. Green Building Futures

a. Five Scenarios

b. Scenario 1: Business As Usual

c. Scenario 2: Reform: LEED Adopts the BREEAM Delivery Model

d. Scenario 3: KPIs and Internet 3.0

e. Scenario 4: Net Zero Carbon

f. Scenario 5: Reward Continuous Improvement

g. Scenario Review

h. Conclusion: Reinventing Green Building

Jerry Yudelson, PE, LEED® Fellow, is the author of 13 full-length professional and trade books on green buildings, integrated design, green homes, water conservation, building performance and sustainable development. Dubbed ‘The Godfather of Green’ by Wired Magazine, his passion for optimizing the built environment is reflected by his many years of professional experience in the green building and certification fields, serving as an elected LEED Fellow and as president of the Green Building Initiative. Jerry also served on the national board of the USGBC and chaired the Steering Committee for the largest green building show,
Greenbuild, from 2004 – 2009. His previous books include
Dry Run,
Choosing Green and
Green Building A to Z.