New systems for ranking buildings, such as BREEAM and LEED, are giving impetus to the construction of sustainable or even "zero net energy" green buildings.
A The big thing that's coming down the pike is the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan, which will rank buildings by energy efficiency.
According to an environmental assessment last year, it did not score high enough to qualify for the Energy Star label granted by the Environmental Protection Agency, which ranks buildings after looking at a year's worth of utility bills.
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While the top-down methods drive performance improvement by ranking a building against its peers, the bottom-up methods are focused on the building's specific context.
Like a lot of the local stagehands, he came up through the ranks, building scenery at Show Motion in Norwalk and hauling sets at the Westport Country Playhouse and the Shubert in New Haven.
The politician, John Kwang, has the ease that Henry's own father, with his broken English, never mastered despite ascending the class ranks, building a chain of Korean groceries and ultimately moving his family from Flushing to the hedges-and-stonework world of Ardsley in Westchester County.
Prior to that, the world junior 100m champion had dominated the junior ranks, building a winning streak of 151 races before having to settle for silver in the 200m at last summer's World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada.
According the 11th-century architectural treatise, Yingzao Fashi, the Great East Hall closely corresponds to a seventh rank building in a system of eight ranks.
A little to the north, the residents of 830 Park Avenue gave $134,000, to rank the building as Mr. Kerry's third-most lucrative.
