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How SAP achieved LEED Platinum certification for their headquarters in Pennsylvania

How SAP achieved LEED Platinum certification for their headquarters in Pennsylvania

By Tom Raftery on September 4, 2013

As I was in Pennsylvania to attend SAP’s Analyst’s Base Camp event earlier this year, I took the opportunity to get a tour of the new LEED Platinum certified Headquarters building. I was shown around the building by the facilities manager, Jim Dodd, who informed me of the different steps taken to enable the structure […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged chiller, geothermal, Green building, green roof, grey water, ice, ice air conditioning, leed, leed platinum, plastic, radiant floor, recycling, sap, smart buildings, water

IBM tackling water issues globally

IBM tackling water issues globally

By Tom Raftery on July 3, 2013

Water, water everywhere… Water is becoming scarce resource globally – even more-so in rapidly growing urban environments.In fact, according to the UN, water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population growth in the last century. – See more at: http://www.unwater.org/statistics_use.html#sthash.SVRxbpoE.dpuf Also, increased droughts, and flash floods are not helping matters. […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ibm, smarter planet, water | 3 Responses

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/26/2010

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/26/2010

By Tom Raftery on March 26, 2010

Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: GE Announces Major European Offshore Wind Expansion with a Planned €340 Million Investment for Manufacturing, Engineering and Service Facilities in Four Countries GE today announced plans to invest approximately €340 million to develop or expand its wind turbine manufacturing, engineering and service facilities in four European countries—the United […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged 1e, Carbon footprint, coal, Corporate Responsibility Magazine, duke energy, energy star, environmental protection agency, ford, freedom of information, GreenNumbers, ibm, Los Angeles, offshore wind, smarter cities, water, Wind power

IBM Global Eco-Efficiency Jam Day 2

IBM Global Eco-Efficiency Jam Day 2

By Tom Raftery on January 29, 2010

Today is the final day of IBM’s Global Eco-efficiency Jam (it finishes at 6pm CET today) and it has been awesome.
There have been hundreds of discussions on all manner of Eco-related topics – everything from LEED certification, to Green software engineering, to Energy Efficiency certificates to Smart cities and collaboration.
People have been asking questions like:
If […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged eco, EcoJam, efficiency, emobility, ibm, leed, mobility, Smart Cities, smart city, water

The day that we see all devices which consume water having networked flow meters is still a ways off

The day that we see all devices which consume water having networked flow meters is still a ways off

By Tom Raftery on January 22, 2010

I wrote a post a couple of days ago asking the question How long until all devices which consume water have networked flow meters? after talking to Oracle VP Industry Strategy, Guerry Waters about Oracle’s recently released “Testing the Water: Smart Metering for Water Utilities” study. Having put the question out there, I’m now going […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Electric utility, Energy, leak detection, oracle, smart grid, smart grids, smart meter, utilities, water

How long until all devices which consume water have networked flow meters?

How long until all devices which consume water have networked flow meters?

By Tom Raftery on January 20, 2010

Photo credit bmitchellw Oracle published the results of a very interesting study recently called Testing the Water: Smart Metering for Water Utilities. Now, we have all heard about the compelling case for Smart Meters for electrical consumption (I have written and spoken about it extensively) but in this study Oracle asked utilities and their customers […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, Energy, epa, google, google powermeter, home management software, microsoft, microsoft hohm, oracle, panasonic, water, watersense | 2 Responses

IBM’s John Soyring talks about IBM’s Smart Planet initiatives around water

IBM’s John Soyring talks about IBM’s Smart Planet initiatives around water

By Tom Raftery on December 14, 2009

I posted my video interview with IBM’s John Soyring previously as part of a round-up of my impressions of the IBM Connect09 event. I have since had the interview transcribed so I thought I’d post it once more as a stand-alone post, with the transcription – the content is that good.
Transcription:
Tom Raftery:
Hi, everyone and welcome […]

Posted in Business | Tagged drinking water, ibm, john soyring, Smart Planet, water

IBM’s Software Analyst Connect event, Smarter Planet and sustainability

IBM’s Software Analyst Connect event, Smarter Planet and sustainability

By Tom Raftery on November 27, 2009

I attended IBM’s eighth annual Software Analyst Connect (#Connect09) last week in Connecticut. The theme of the event was “IBM Software for a Smarter Planet”.
You have to admire IBM for coming up with the Smart Planet branding strategy. Now anything Smart (Smart Cities, Smart Water even Smart Work) is automatically, subconsciously associated with IBM. […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Connect09, ibm, SAFE, smarter planet, Sustainability, water

Never run a conference at a venue that can’t provide water dispensing machines, instead of bottled water

Never run a conference at a venue that can’t provide water dispensing machines, instead of bottled water

By Tom Raftery on November 3, 2009

I attend a lot of conferences.
The two most recent ones I was at were both run by SAP. The first was the International SAP for Utilities conference in Munich, the second was the SAP TechEd conference in Vienna. Both events were very interesting for a variety of reasons but both conferences left a nasty […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged aguafina, bottled water, Coca-Cola, conferences, dasani, municipal water, pepsi, sap, sapteched09, tap water, water | 2 Responses

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