BusinessWeek: Dagher Engineering - An Office Renovation Pays for Itself
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Posting Date | 24 September 2009
Country | North America
Geographic Coverage | Local (city or municipality)
Theme | Building operation, monitoring, energy management, Public and non residential buildings, General, Very low energy buildings, Socio-economics and finances related to energy conservation and renewable energy in buildings
Target Group | Building professionals, Building occupants
Source of funding | Private
Abstract | Dagher Engineering's office, in Manhattan's historic Financial District, became one of the first in the country to receive LEED Gold Certified Commercial Interior certification, from the U.S. Green Building Council. The case is presented in BusinessWeek magazine online, in slide show form. A related article is also available.
Web URL(s) of the case | http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/02/0213_dagher_engineering/index.htm, http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_62/s0802071635627.htm
Lessons learnt | The results are paying off: the electric bill dropped by thousands of dollars a year, and the owner says the office contributes to attracting new clients.
Award labels | none
Case Languages | English
Submitted by Alexander Deliyannis (SYMPRAXIS Team)
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