Abundance Blog
News and ideas from Paladino's team of industry leaders.
Five Tips When Designing for Daylight
Designing for daylight is a complex process of balancing the use of available natural light with artificial light through the use of daylighting systems such as architecture, responsive lighting solutions, and daylight/shading devices. According to the International WELL Building Institute,…
Important Takeaways from ASHRAE Standard 209
We recently covered ways to rethink your approach to modeling building performance in the Abundance Blog post, You May Want to Rethink Your Energy Model. In that post, we talked about using energy modeling as a design tool, and ASHRAE…
You May Want to Rethink Your Energy Model
It must be said that not all energy models are created equal. This post explores the ways you can use your LEED energy model for more than just compliance. By instead focusing on performance, cost-effective energy conservation measures, and energy…
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.…
Reduce maintenance costs and increase equipment efficiency with a CMMS or EAM
One of the cornerstones of green building is energy management, and our commissioning team particularly focuses on the energy consumption and operations of building equipment. But energy savings is just one metric that building maintenance professionals care about. In addition…
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…
Energy Efficient Buildings Increase Financial Performance
By Brad Pease
The verdict is in. Green buildings do improve financial performance of properties, reports the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in its recently released report Energy Efficiency & Financial Performance: a Review of Studies in the Market. The report was designed to…
The Greening of Paladino’s New Seattle Headquarters
By Brad Pease
Abundance is a Paladino core value, meaning that every successful change initiative must contain an upside. So when it came time to design and build our new Seattle headquarters, we put ourselves through the abundance approach. Rather than bemoaning any…
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…