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Greening With LEED: Lessons From Leaders

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

When Adobe achieved the LEED certification , (July and December 2006) it was waves among stalwarts how they can be environment efficient, cost saving and could become another earth saver. The greening journey of Adobe started back in 2001 when it realized how could be the greening of office is effective. It employed the facilities management firm Cushman & Wakefield and implemented various in-house improvement projects. They worked on improving quality of indoor air, proper management of ventilations, drought tolerant landscaping, and irrigation facilities linked to the local weather stations, with a real time adjustment system, monitoring of carbon monoxide and adjustment of exhaust fan accordingly, and maximization in use of outdoor air.

 

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Greening the Office: Tips and tricks

Friday, January 5th, 2007

 

You need not to be an environment specialist to make your office green .For every office be it a small size (0 to 10 peoples) medium size (10 to 50 peoples) or large office (beyond 50) there are very simple tips and techniques which can make your office green .

Posters: They are best methods to keep anybody remembering about what should be done. What are the priorities what is the motto to make office green ? Posters do have psychological effect on the employees and this is a slow and sure process to convert any body to desired path.

Meetings: Every week their must be a meeting regarding the measures taken to make office green. The agenda should be focused on reward on adoption of the methodologies to make office green , rather than punishment on errors. The employees must be made to collaborate regarding the process of making office green in harmony instead of mutual competitions to show how much efficient one is in maintaining the office green .

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