June 10, 2010
Increased demands on green office space represent recent trends of people, more and more, concerning buildings energy efficiency and environmental responsibility. In the same context, importance of Leeds certification has also increased as a standard to measure how green the building is. As far as I know most of developers and owners are concerning about cost and benefit of green retrofit and are pointing out that the biggest obstacle to go green is initial cost. However, according to survey, the additional costs for Leeds certified building is less than 2% compare to none Leeds certified building, while operating cost is reduced more than 40% compare to none Leeds certified buildings. The survey also shows the fact that the higher level of Leeds qualification requires much higher cost of construction. To get higher level of Leeds certification, the cost on construction is increased more than doubled, on the other hand, reduced operation cost is tenuous. Therefore, it seems to me that conducting green retrofit to Leeds platinum level is more likely waste of money unless the developer or owner has different aim, such as advertising their evironmental responsibility, of going green.
Increased demands on green office space represent recent trends of people, more and more, concerning buildings energy efficiency and environmental responsibility. In the same context, importance of Leeds certification has also increased as a standard to measure how green the building is. As far as I know most of developers and owners are concerning about cost and benefit of green retrofit and are pointing out that the biggest obstacle to go green is initial cost. However, according to survey, the additional costs for Leeds certified building is less than 2% compare to none Leeds certified building, while operating cost is reduced more than 40% compare to none Leeds certified buildings. The survey also shows the fact that the higher level of Leeds qualification requires much higher cost of construction. To get higher level of Leeds certification, the cost on construction is increased more than doubled, on the other hand, reduced operation cost is tenuous. Therefore, it seems to me that conducting green retrofit to Leeds platinum level is more likely waste of money unless the developer or owner has different aim, such as advertising their evironmental responsibility, of going green.
On-line education is now widely using on every educational level, as time goes by, more and more educational institutions provide various on-line educational programs for students who don’t have much time to commute school or who expect maximized educational achievement through on-line education. However, as with any educational options, there are arguable pros and cons on on-line education.
In my perspective, on-line educations are still educational option when the company intent to improve employee’s job skill on particular area or to develop employee’s productivity, because one of biggest advantage on on-line education is freedom of time spending and possibility of providing same quality of education for large number of employee simultaneously. Additionally, education & training practitioner’s stand point, reduced educational cost, comparing with off-line education, is one of biggest concern. However, achievement from on-line education may vary, specially, in the regular education, such as primary education, on-line education may provide not more in depth of interactive education like communicate with peer group and attitude on leaning but only provide fragmentary knowledge.
In my perspective, on-line educations are still educational option when the company intent to improve employee’s job skill on particular area or to develop employee’s productivity, because one of biggest advantage on on-line education is freedom of time spending and possibility of providing same quality of education for large number of employee simultaneously. Additionally, education & training practitioner’s stand point, reduced educational cost, comparing with off-line education, is one of biggest concern. However, achievement from on-line education may vary, specially, in the regular education, such as primary education, on-line education may provide not more in depth of interactive education like communicate with peer group and attitude on leaning but only provide fragmentary knowledge.
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