Posts By Roger Valdez

Project Management

Greening HOPE VI:Capital Investment in Building Green Yields Return.

Both Oregon (Portland) and Washington (Seattle and Bremerton) have HOPE VI projects, the latest generation of public housing. (HOPE VI is a federally funded program started in 1992 aimed at improving distressed public housing and reversing the negative perceptions of it.) One of these projects in Seattle was recently evaluated for energy efficiency – andRead… Read more »

Career

Does city living trim greenhouse gas emissions?

A recent study says that it does. The authors of this study, published in The Journal of Urban Planning and Development, quantified the emissions from building materials and construction, home heating and power demands, and transportation energy, in both urban suburban neighborhoods in the Toronto metro area. And they found that downtown residents use radicallyRead… Read more »