Downtown Brookhaven

Information about energy use and historic buildings from the National Parks Service. I believe our southern latitudes, and reduced heating needs, make an excellent example of this: Older buildings were found to use less energy for heating and cooling and hence probably require fewer weatherization improvements. They use less energy because they were built with [...]

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A well-known green building architect makes a very good case for historic building renovation. Not only about the inherent energy savings built into these structures, but interesting points about the community impact. One example — renovation of historical structures involves expenditures on local labor and very little on “products”. The result to the local economy [...]

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