Posted by: Jiri Skopek Energy and Sustainability Services Notwithstanding all the electronic communications, there’s no substitute for the personal contact of an all-staff gathering. In informal conversations, Property and Facility Managers are pumped up to make energy and environmental improvements to their buildings. How can you make this a reality? Many were interested to hear [...]
Archive | May, 2011
Green Datacenters: The Dialogue Continues
Posted by: Curt Holcomb Data Center Solutions Energy efficiency continues to be a major topic in the datacenter industry, and it’s no wonder. Energy is one of the biggest elements of cost in datacenters, not only because of the servers themselves, but also the air conditioning systems needed to counter all the heat generated. It’s [...]
Government can help drive meaningful energy reduction initiatives
Posted by: Peter Belisle Energy and Sustainability Services There’s a tremendous sense of frustration with investors that our federal and municipal incentives are focused on alternative energy production rather than demand reduction strategies. While it is important that there are subsidies for supply side solutions, many of these technologies have challenging ROIs without the added [...]
The rise of Chief Sustainability Officers: a Boardroom revolution?
Posted by: Anne-Sophie Blin EMEA Upstream Sustainability Services I have just read the recently published Acre Resources paper on the emergence of Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs), whose remit is to work closely with the Board to integrate sustainability fully in to the core business strategy. It strikes me that the job market for sustainability roles [...]
Green development in Panama
Posted by: John Carver Jones Lang LaSalle’s Ports Airports and Global Infrastructure (PAGI) group A team of Jones Lang LaSalle’s industrial experts has just returned from an eye-opening inspection tour of the Panama Canal. The group travelled to Central America to check out the progress of development surrounding the $5.25 billion Panama Canal expansion project. This major [...]