Abundance Blog
News and ideas from Paladino's team of industry leaders.
Building Resilience: An interview with Allison Pyrch
Last month the Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced $700,000 in Climate Resilience Grants to help communities across the state prepare for and recover from climate-related impacts. On the west coast, California voters in June approved a record $4.1 billion…
World Oceans Day is June 8
There was a big spotlight on the plastics in the oceans when Earth Day 2018 made the case to end plastic waste. Similarly, World Oceans Day is working to prevent plastic pollution and encourage solutions for a healthy ocean. We…
Earth Day is April 22, let’s end plastic waste together
Single-use plastics—food packaging, shopping bags, drinking straws, beverage containers, etc.—constitute 88,000 tons of plastic thrown away in the United States every day, and outnumbers sea life 6 to 1. Single-use plastics drastically increase the plastic pollution that is polluting our…
The critical link between building commissioning and human performance: a Commissioning Project Engineer talks about becoming a WELL AP
As a commissioning project engineer at Paladino, I improve building performance by carefully analyzing data. Numbers are black and white - and unambiguous. Analytics are core to Paladino’s approach, and number crunching is in my DNA. If you want to…
ENERGY STAR scoring is about to change
ENERGY STAR compares a building’s energy performance to that of similar buildings nationwide, and buildings have become more energy efficient in recent years. This is good news! It also means that if you benchmark properties in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager,…
Green building trends for 2018 and beyond
Happy New Year and Hello 2018! There was a flurry of new development activity at the end of 2017, and the pace is holding steady as this year begins. We’ve observed several driving trends in the incoming projects and client…
Self-preservation in the age of climate change
There is a sweeping federal climate change report drafted by 13 federal agencies, which concludes that Americans are feeling the effects of climate change today. With the recent flooding in the Houston area (thanks to Harvey), we don’t have to…
Are your buildings climate-ready? A 1.1 trillion ton iceberg just broke away from Antarctica … so it’s a good time to check.
Believe it or not, there is no story more important to our industry than the news of a Delaware-sized piece of ice drifting away from Antarctica. Before I drift into a sea of puns about the tip of the iceberg,…
Wellness and the built environment - let HR take the reins
People spend nearly 90% of their lives indoors, and for a majority of Americans, that inside time is in an office environment. That’s significant – and it’s the reason that it’s all the more important that companies and organizations ensure…
Reflecting on the work of Zaha Hadid
In tribute to Zaha Hadid, we’re sharing some of her most remarkable work. Her greatness will be remembered in the otherworldly designs found across the globe. Zaha Hadid, who passed away last week at the age of 65, left behind…