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Leonardo Academy is working to establish practical and effective rules to ensure building owners can receive tradable emission reduction credits for energy efficiency achievements that reduce all types of emissions.
Sheila Sheridan, former chair of IFMA and retired from Harvard University as Director of Facilities and Services at the John F. Kennedy School of Government shares her experience and insights on Global Facilities Management and the key issues facing facilities managers around the world today.
Rege Koslof admits that keeping all of Carnegie Mellon's 4.2 million sq. ft. of campus building space clean is "like managing a small city," but the Green Cleaning program he initiated four years ago is up to the challenge. In an interview with The Ashkin Group, Koslof explains how Green Cleaning succeeds equally well in providing a healthy and safe indoor environment for both the majority of building occupants as well as as a small number of students and staff highly sensitive to indoor air quality.
Green Cleaning has gone through a transformation in recent years. Better technology and understanding has made the Green Cleaning market easy and cost effective.
Green is rapidly becoming a business necessity as companies as diverse as Bank of America, Genzyme, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and Toyota are push green buildings fully into the global corporate mainstream.
A recent survey carried out by respiratory experts of more than 3,000 workers in Australia reveals that nearly 10 percent develop asthma as an adult primarily as a result of the air born chemicals they are exposed to at their places of work.
"Given that we spend most of our time indoors, we're really affected by indoor sources. We use a lot of cleaners and we're exposed to off-gassing from furnishings."
-- Sonja Sax, Gradient Corp. lead researcher of study on teenage cancer risks from indoor air pollution.
