Inland Kenworth says its newest location — Inland Kenworth Nanaimo –has succeeded in all accounts, and recently marked its first year of operation with a grand opening event. By incorporating green measures into the dealership’s design and operation, Inland Kenworth also leads the way in helping to reduce the industry’s impact on the environment.
What is the real value of 'sustainability' and 'green buildings', and how can you benefit from this? This seminar shatters the myth that 'green costs more'.
Green Value means thinking about and realizing land use strategies that accommodate settlement needs in practical ways while protecting the ecological resources upon which our communities depend. Understanding green value approaches means having positive options for managing growth, the design of communities, buildings and sustaining the ecology.
The Green Value and Develop with Care programs of the Real Estate Foundation and BC Ministry of Environment, respectively, have produced a collection of twelve case studies that celebrate leading examples of real estate development projects in Vancouver Island communities. These case studies illustrate how green value approaches have been implemented, and include a review of the benefits/liabilities of each project.
Green Value is an independent research study that looked at green buildings in Canada, the USA and the UK. It concludes that a clear link is beginning to emerge between the market value of a building and its green features. Green Value brought together 11 sponsors in three countries including both governments and the private sector, with teams on two continents.
The “Meeting of the Minds” initiative has a Vancouver Island focus and is designed to facilitate the move from talk to water-centric action. This outcome will be achieved through an island-wide communication information exchange network. To launch the networking process, the first “Meeting of the Minds” workshop was held in Parksville in September 2005. The second in the series was held in May 2006, again in Parksville.
Environmental sustainability matters to British Columbians and all the players need to work together to identify and promote the hidden value of green buildings. Premier of British Columbia delivers keynote address at seminar organized by the Urban Development Institute.
The Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia is pursuing a strategy to persuade local governments on Vancouver Island to adopt “green value” approaches to planning for and accommodating settlement growth. The Foundation uses the term “green value” as a generic reference to use and conservation of land and real estate that achieves social and economic goals while minimizing harmful effects on ecological assets.
Senior executives from the most influential bodies responsible for international valuation standards came together for the first time with key industry stakeholders, heads of global green building councils, top level surveyors, appraisers, international agencies and senior government policy makers to discuss the critical importance for communities and economies as a whole of integrating sustainability into valuation and appraisal practices.
This Water Environment Research Foundation report by LK Lampe, entitled “Post-project monitoring of BMPs/SUDS to determine performance and whole-life costs”, states that, over the past 20 years, the use of Best Management Practices (BMPs) in the United States has been instrumental in reducing both the detrimental impacts to receiving water quality and the exacerbated flooding caused by urbanization and storm water drainage. More recently, Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) have started to be used in the United Kingdom.
