Brad Berton
Identifying EV Opportunities
By Brad Berton While equipment vendors and charging network sponsors are now active in several regions, the West Coast and Southwest are seeing a disproportionate share of current activity—thanks in part to network ventures funded through federal economic stimulus funds including the Department of Energy-led EV Project, among other sources. And it doesn’t hurt that the public-private endeavor dubbed West Coast Electric Highway is deploying chargers along Interstate-5 from San Diego to Vancouver, B.C., with AeroVironment acting as the charging station partner of participating state transportation departments. EV Project leader ECOtality and its partners are quite active siting Blink-branded chargers…
New Life for EIFS Retrofits
While many new-wave technologies are emerging that have potential to help commercial property executives reduce building energy consumption in coming years, some older mechanisms are seeing a revival. One such alternative is exterior insulation and finish systems, or EIFS. By Brad Berton.
EIFS in Practice: Implementation Case Studies
Exterior insulation and finish systems, or EIFS, has long been applied to residential properties but is now catching on as an insulation solution in the commercial sector. These case studies illustrate different applications that have produced energy cost reductions.
Blazing the EC Glazing Trail Will the Next Office Development Wave Mainstream Dynamic Electrochromic Glass?
Commercial window experts have great expectations for a budding technology known as “dynamic electrochromic glazing” for window glass, which allow allows property operators to optimize solar heat gain for prevailing conditions without losing daylighting benefits.
Aid in the Shade: Coming Development Wave to Include Sophisticated Shading Devices
Over more than a decade, commercial property executives in Germany and other European nations have come to rely on an energy-conserving mechanism that has yet to catch on in the United States: exterior sun-shading devices. By Brad Berton.
Dynamic or Static?
Exterior sun-shading devices, long popular in Europe, are just starting to attract a following in the United States. Whether you choose a motorized or fixed option, they carry a number of benefits–if you’re willing to wait for the payoff.
Sustainability: Taking on the Challenge of Net-Zero Energy
For the past two years, a federally funded effort has focused on assuring that by 2030 virtually all newly constructed commercial buildings can be characterized as net-zero — and all commercial buildings 20 years later. By Brad Berton.
Why Solar Installations are Proliferating in the Garden State
While efforts to mainstream solar power have generally met with apathy or failed projects, New Jersey has pushed ahead. Developers in the Garden State are in the process of installing the two largest solar arrays in North America.
Radical Departure: The Latest Non-Listed REITs Offer Enhanced Liquidity, Transparency
One of the commercial property industry’s best-known institutional investment managers is now also striving to sell warehouses through wirehouses. In a move with potentially far-reaching implications for the ever-controversial non-listed REIT sector, the renowned real estate advisor Clarion Partners is aiming to sell shares in the new REIT the company is sponsoring to individual investors through financial advisers.
QR Code QRiosity
While the technology’s market penetration to date is likely still in single digits, on-site listing signs at all sizes and shapes of commercial spaces now feature odd-looking squares of encoded black-and-white patterns known as “Quick Response” codes. How effective are they? By Brad Berton.
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