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industry news

FORT COLLINS, Colo.- Fort
Collins, Colo., population 150,000, is trying
to do something that
no other community of
its size has ever done:
transform its downtown
into a net zero energy
district, meaning it
will consume no more
energy in a given year
than it generates. And
the city as a whole is
aiming to reduce its carbon emissions by 80% by
2030.
To make that happen,
engineers are preparing to deploy an array
of advanced energy
technologies, including
combined-cycle gas turbines to replace aging
coal-fired plants, as well
as rooftop solar photovoltaics, solar gardens,
wind turbines, thermal
and electricity storage,
and microgrids. Source:
IEEE Spectrum

Nic Lehoux ArchitecturAL PhotogrAPhy

Colorado City
Aims for NZE

Renovated 1970s Federal Building

Old, Tall and
Energy Efficient
CHICAGO-The Edith
Green-Wendell Wyatt
(EGWW) Federal
Building in Portland,
Ore., is on track to
become one of the highest performance federal
buildings in the General
Service Administration's
(GSA) portfolio. It also
has been selected as the
best tall building in the
Americas by the Council
on Tall Buildings
and Urban Habitat
(CTBUH). Built in 1974,
the 18-story, 512,474 ft2
(47 610 m2) office tower

Insurer Sues City
Over Climate Change
CHICAGO-U.S. insurance companies are looking to file lawsuits
against small towns and cities
who the companies say haven't
prepared for climate-changerelated floods and storms.
Farmer's Insurance Group in
June withdrew a lawsuit it filed
against Chicago and its suburbs
for failing to prepare for heavy
rains and associated flooding last
spring.
Farmers argued in its lawsuit that
the cities knew climate change had

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was renovated 2010-13.
The project included
a major mechanical
upgrade paired with a
full replacement of the
building envelope with
a distinctive shading
façade.
CTBUH judges said the
project achieves operational sustainability that
would be admirable in a
brand-new building, let
alone a retrofit of a 1970s
"energy hog."
The new design is predicted to perform 46%
above the ASHRAE/IES
Standard 90.1-2007 baseline, with an energy use
intensity (EUI) of 31-36
kBtu/ft2/year (352-409
MJ/m2/year). A 180 kW
rooftop solar array provides about 5% of the
building's energy needs
and also collects rainwater to be reused in the
building. The mechanical
systems includes radiant heating and cooling.
Source: CTBUH

raised the frequency, duration, and
intensity of regional rainfall since the
1970s and acknowledged vulnerabilities to increased flooding by adopting
a Climate Action Plan in 2008. "We
hoped that by filing this lawsuit we
would encourage cities and counties
to take preventative steps to reduce
the risk of harm in the future," the
company said in a statement.
It was "the first loud shot in what I
think will be a long-term set of litigation battles over failure to prepare for
climate change," said Michael Gerrard,
director of the Center for Climate
Change Law at Columbia University.
Source: SFGate.com

J u ly 2 0 1 4

Study Questions
Engineer Shortage
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Little credible
evidence exists of the claimed widespread shortages in the U.S. science
and engineering work force, according
to an article in The Atlantic magazine.
The author, Michael S. Teitelbaum, a
senior research associate at Harvard
Law School, cites research conducted by
leading academic researchers and from
respected research organizations such
as the National Bureau of Economic
Research, the RANsD Corporation, and
the Urban Institute.
"No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread
labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelor's degrees or
higher," the article states.
The article makes a case that if there
were a genuine shortage, there would be
evidence of employers raising wage offers
to attract the scientists and engineers
from a limited pool. However, most studies report that real wages in many science
and engineering occupations have been
flat or slow-growing. Source: The Atlantic
WASHINGTON, D.C.-With 1,961 LEEDregistered and -certified projects and
more than 2,000 LEED professionals,
Greater China is the second-largest
region for LEED in the world outside the
U.S., according to a new report from the
U.S. Green Building Council. The report
also states that LEED projects cover 110
million m2 (1.18 billion ft2) in Greater
China. Fifty-four LEED projects have
already been certified in China in 2014.
The first LEED v4 project in the world,
Haworth Showroom, is located in Beijing.
Source: USGBC

LONDON-Most still consider engineering a
"male" profession, according to a recent
survey by the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers (IMechE). Two-thirds of
respondents said they associate the
term "engineer" more with men. Only
27% said they associate the term equally
with men and women. Forty percent of
respondents said they think the current
image of engineering is deterring women
from the profession, compared with only
21% saying it is deterring both men and
women. Source: IMechE



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