Abundance Blog
News and ideas from Paladino's team of industry leaders.
Energy audits can fool-proof your CapEx budget
Energy audits are the best kept secret of smart facilities and operations managers. The central goal for CapEx budgeting is to figure out the best way to spend your company’s financial resources to optimize a building’s performance – financial and otherwise.…
Lessons Learned from Paladino's LEED v4 Gold Rating
By Brad Pease and Megan Snyder
Just in time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Paladino and Company, our headquarters office in Seattle has become the first LEED v4 certified project in the Northwest. We achieved a Gold rating using the LEED Commercial interiors program. It…
The New Green Code Partnership: Learn from the Apollo Program
By Brad Pease
What do the numbers 4, 189.1, and 2014 and 13 all have in common? The first three numbers reference different foundational standards that have independently attempted to define a green building: The USGBC’s LEEDv4, ASHRAE 189.1, and IgCC 2014. The…
Simplify the LEED Submission for Manufacturing Energy Modeling
By Grey Fowles
Manufacturing energy modeling is a complex, multifunctional and challenging endeavor – especially to get through the LEED process. Manufacturers face hurdles that don't apply to office buildings. Typically manufacturers use a large amount of energy and baselines don’t exist for…
Energy Modeling Can Save Time and Money for a Building Project
Before the first shovel of dirt is removed from a prospective building site, the owner wants to know something very basic: what’s the payback over time? I developed a continuing education course on energy modeling for Building Design + Construction…
Controlling the Temperature to Keep Employees Happy
By Brad Pease
Baby, it’s cold outside. And possibly inside, too. Building engineers are gearing up for the usual complaints that it’s freezing on one side of the office while it’s too hot on the other side. The result is likely higher utility…