Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Peter Chee
Being in “green” shared office space can help keep your companies operating costs down. Yes, it does cost more to go green, but the payback begins right away. thinkspace has the ability to offer shared office space in a class A shared building and keep the lease rates reasonable. One of the big ways we’re able [...]
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Posted on July 5th, 2008 by Peter Chee
I’ve been busy with so many things lately and I’ve even decided to take a little time off. I was at Whole Foods Market in Redmond today and was browsing the wine aisle looking for a new wine to buy. One that caught my eye was “Sustainable Red 2005″ a Parducci Family Farmed Winery. They are [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2008 by Peter Chee
Every private office has an occupancy sensor in our newly built out Thinkspace office. Our goal is to reduce energy consumption by more than 30% for the space that we occupy. We installed commercial light fixtures with higher performance ballast and lamps. That alone should help us get to the 30% energy savings. In addition [...]
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Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Peter Chee
We have put a lot of focus on air quality for our executive office suites build-out. Early on in our design process we decided to use either a low or no-VOC paint. Yes, it’s good for the environment (reduces smog and ozone pollution) but even more important it is good for your health.
“VOCs” are Volatile [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Peter Chee
Tenant improvements can require a new company moving into an existing building to create a lot of demolition debris. In order to build out our Thinkspace executive office suites, 5.79 tons or 11,580 pounds of demolition debris was removed. The number of tons could have been much greater, but one of our goals was to [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Peter Chee
On March 13th, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) issued a report stating “buildings represent the greatest opportunity for considerable reductions in CO2 emissions”.
“Every year, buildings in North America cause more than 2,200 megatons of CO2 to be released into the atmosphere, about 35 percent of the continent’s total CO2 emissions. In the United States [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by Peter Chee
Puget Sound Energy (PSE) has awarded a $13,000 conservation grant to Thinkspace for energy efficient lighting retrofits. Thinkspace’s plan calls for a reduction in energy consumption by approximately 21,106 KWH. Annual energy cost savings are estimated to be a little over two-thousand dollars per year. Our discussions with PSE have been on-going for three months. It [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2008 by Peter Chee
Over the past few months, I have been searching for companies, organizations, government agencies that encourage other companies to go green with their tenant improvements. One of the first places that I called was PSE (Puget Sound Energy). I talked with an Energy Management Engineer and he was happy and willing to meet me at [...]
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