Existing Buildings

Adaptive Reuse: Giving New Life To Old Buildings

Adaptive reuse
Repurposing an existing, underutilized building through adaptive reuse gives it a new lease on life and benefits owners, the environment, and communities.

Upgrading HVAC Systems For Adaptive Reuse

HVAC Systems
By exploring different ways to modernize HVAC systems, executives can forge a path to a sustainable building revitalization.

Resilient Buildings: Standing In The Face Of Disaster

Building Resilience
Buildings and communities can look to codes, standards, and financing to achieve sustainability and resilience goals.

USGBC Launches Draft LEED v5 For Operations And Maintenance

LEED v5
LEED v5 O+M focuses on setting existing buildings on decarbonization path and addresses equity, health, ecosystems, and resilience

Building Performance Standards: A Key To Reducing Emissions

ACEEE looks at the expanding role of building performance standards as a key strategy to reduce emissions from existing buildings.

Building Retrofits Essential To Battle Energy Costs, Energy Crisis

Building retrofit rates need to triple to meet the goals in the Paris Agreement, asserts research from JLL.

NBI Releases Decarbonization Code For Existing Buildings

New Buildings Institute's Existing Building Decarbonization Code is a guide to reducing carbon emissions, as well as meeting climate action, public health, and equity goals.

American Concrete Institute Releases New Concrete Repair Guide

ACI 562-19 gives building officials increased confidence that concrete repairs are performed in a way that provides an acceptable level of protection for the public.

U.S. Steel Tower Achieves LEED Building Operations, Maintenance Certification

The 64-floor skyscraper in downtown Pittsburgh is now the second-largest LEED for Building Operations and Maintenance: Existing Buildings V4 office building in the world.

2018 Moving Forward Report Looks At Existing Buildings

National Institute of Building Sciences Consultative Council report addresses ways to improve the performance of the nation’s existing building stock and outlines efforts undertaken to date and the challenges that still remain.

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