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There’s a lesson to be learned from this year’s FMXcellence honorees, but the lesson may not be obvious. ( Click here to read about the honorees. ) This year’s honorees were recognized for very large projects or programs. The enterprise real estate group of TD Bank Group helped meet...

Fluorescent lamp recycling laws already exist at the state level, and there are federal laws that include certain restrictions about how mercury-containing materials may be handled. What the United States is lacking, however, is a federal law that streamlines the recycling of fluorescent lamps and provides...

Our “Green Office Tip of the Week,” this week focuses on our most popular service, lamp recycling . EverLights works to help businesses understand the value of fluorescent lamp recycling. Not only does recycling lamps help the environment, but your company can also be fined up to $25,000...

Due to the mercury used to create them, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added fluorescent lamps to its Universal Waste Rule in 1999. This regulation requires all businesses to recycle used lamps , preventing the mercury from entering into the ground, water and air. Although a good amount of...

Take a second to think about all the energy your office wastes on a daily basis. Leaving office and kitchen lights on when nobody is in the room, letting appliances stay on all day and forgetting to turn your computer off at night are just a few of the big energy wasters. There are two key reasons your...

These days it seems like every company is trying to go green, and we’ll be the first to back those efforts up. To prove how supportive we are, we decided to bring back our “Green Office Tip of the Week” segment this week to offer up our thoughts on how your company can improve its recycling...

No one really wants to say this out loud, but the fact is that a LEED design alone won’t give you an energy-efficient building. Architects don’t want to say it because it sounds like they’re not doing their jobs when they design LEED buildings. The U.S. Green Building Council doesn’t...

In the 13 years since the US Green Building Council developed the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program, the pursuit of LEED points has become an escalating priority for many facilities managers. Many in the field are already familiar with the program’s basic structure. LEED...

Long before there was LEED , long before Energy Star , there was CBECS . The Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey, as CBECS is formally known, provides a statistical baseline for the energy consumption of U.S. buildings. Never heard of CBECS? You’re not alone. But that doesn’t mean...