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  • Black Female Founder’s AI Platform Reduces Energy Waste And Is ESG-Focused

    Forbes

    Reducing energy waste is big business: $33.28 billion in 2022, according to Fortune Business Insights.Broadening horizons: COI’s hardware-enabled software platform simplifies the identification of energy waste, and moreover, a portion of kilowatts saved can be allocated to low-income communities. This could serve as a catalyst for inspiration to other diverse, underrepresented groups to channel diversity through innovation. …

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  • 100+ Year Building Steam Practice Gets Artificial Intelligence Upgrade On Nantum OS

    Prescriptive Data

    In NYC this past winter, steam charges increased ~10x in price (due to on-peak demand) each morning. Prescriptive Data’s Nantum OS has launched its latest smart building optimization program to combat steam demand charges for real estate owners using district steam and has proven to save thousands of dollars every week.

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  • New Skyscraper, Built to Be an Environmental Marvel, Is Already Dated

    The New York Times

    One Vanderbilt, in the heart of New York City, is built to be especially climate friendly. But the design landscape and city rules have changed quickly. With the impending Local Law 97 set to come into force in 2024, owner/operators, developers, and other real estate industry stakeholders are increasingly getting prepared to address the city’s aggressive carbon emissions caps.Yes, but how will current development projects navigate the plethora of regulations, yet alone fare with even the mos…

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  • Depreciating the built environment

    Pi Labs Insights

    We are at the beginning of a long period of crisis, or tension. The tension is between the need for buildings which minimize waste, energy use and carbon emission, and the environmental and financial cost of producing those buildings. The tradeoff: Using accounting principles as an analogy when describing the challenges facing the built environment offers a paradigm shift in thinking about the problem. …

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  • Funding Slowdown? Not For Climate And Clean Energy Software

    Crunchbase

    Discouraging news on the climate front is easy to find. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to rise. The “Doomsday Glacier” is disintegrating faster than predicted. And climate change is contributing to extinction risk for thousands of species. The case for optimism: When it comes to funding in this nascent sector, not all is doom and gloom. On the contrary, significant investment sums have been deployed into software tracking and carbon emissions reduction, and on fastening the trans…

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  • Hardware investment is vital for decarbonising real estate

    PlaceTech

    Venture capital has long favoured software. In 2021, VCs invested $290bn worldwide into software companies, according to data from Pitchbook. Hardware, meanwhile, attracted just $13bn.

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  • Plans to dim City of London’s skyscrapers to save energy

    BBC News

    Buildings in the City of London would be required to switch off or dim their lights at night under proposals submitted by the area’s governing body.

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  • Decarbonisation And The Green Transition In Construction: Logical, Cost-Effective, And Inevitable

    Forbes

    Blurb: There’s no denying that global warming is one of the most pressing issues of our time and there is a booming consensus that decarbonization is the only logical way forward (after all, it was a key theme at this year’s World Economic Forum Meeting in Davos).

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  • EU announces own green industry plan in global subsidy race

    EURACTIV

    As the EU aims for climate neutrality by 2050, key industries such as the manufacturing of wind turbines, solar panels, and battery-electric vehicles must be ready to supply the necessary technologies to decarbonise the economy.

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  • New Jersey Adopts First-of-a-Kind Low Carbon Concrete Law

    NRDC

    New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy kicked off this week by signing the New Jersey Low Embodied Carbon Concrete Leadership Act into law.

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