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Endowment Policy Buildings are getting smarter -- and the next generation of building materials is expected to do even more. Windows could trap the sun's energy to heat hot water. Sensors that measure the carbon dioxide exhaled by people in a room could determine whether the air conditioning needs to be turned up.

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Selling Endowment ``More potential products have been invented in the last 15 years than in the entire prior history of architecture,'' says Philadelphia architect Stephen Kieran. ``We're only beginning to tap the potential of those materials.''

Endowment Mis Selling The new materials and technology are being used in a wave of buildings designed to save as much energy as possible. They range from old ideas, like ``green roofs,'' where a layer of plants on a roof helps the building retain heat in winter and stay cool in summer, and new ideas, like special coating for windows that let's light in, but keeps heat out.

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Selling Endowment Policy Most commercial buildings in the United States still lack the most rudimentary technology, such as timers for lights, but the idea of buildings that use technology to save energy got a boost from the 2000 energy crisis, when California experienced blackouts and electricity prices rose.

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Endowment Fund That year, the U.S. Green Building Council launched a program to accredit building professionals in environmental design. Interest in the program, called LEED, for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, has skyrocketed. Since 2000, about 19,000 people have been accredited, 9,000 in the last month alone.

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Lilly Endowment About 4 percent of new commercial construction is now completed under LEED guidelines, said Taryn Holowka, a spokeswoman for the Green Building Council.

Endowment Mortgage Uk Many new building materials are first developed in Europe, where energy is more expensive. ``The construction industry is behind the times in some ways, compared to many other industries,'' said Patrick Mays, chief information officer of architecture firm NBBJ.

Endowment Plan Mortgage Smart building technology in the United States was formerly reserved for large projects and college campuses.

Endowment Mortgage Complain ``Now we're seeing it make its way down, even to the residential market,'' said Jim Jones, an architecture professor at Virginia Tech. Think of the motion-sensing lights common outside garages and front doors.

Sell Endowment As technologies such as sensors becomes cheaper, their uses spread.

Endowment Mortgage At Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, the lights are controlled by sensors that measure sunlight. They dim immediately when it's sunny and brighten when a passing cloud blocks the sun.

Endowment Funds At a new middle school in Washington, D.C., the air conditioner shuts off when a window is open.

Sell Endowment Policy A wall of windows at a University of Pennsylvania engineering building has built-in blinds adjusted by a computer program that tracks the sun's path.

College Endowment The elevators at Seven World Trade Center, which is under construction at New York's ground zero, feature a dispatch system that groups people traveling to nearby floors into the same elevator, thereby saving elevator stops and trips. People who work in the building will enter it by swiping ID cards that will tell the elevators their floor; readouts will then tell them which elevator to use.

Endowment Mortgage Plan The building also has windows with a coating that blocks heat while letting in light.

Modified Endowment Contract More sophisticated building materials are in development. Architect Stephen Kieran's firm is working on ``smart wrap'' that uses tiny solar collectors to trap the sun's energy and transmitters the width of a human hair to move it.

Endowment Surrender ``The materials in smart wrap are either commercially available or they've been developed in corporate or university research labs,'' said Kieran, a partner at Kieran Timberlake in Philadelphia. ``They're poised to change the face of the construction industry in the next decade or so.''

Traded Endowment Policy Still, relatively cheap energy costs in the United States mean most building owners remain unconcerned with efficiency, said Srinivas Katipamula, a research engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Of the roughly 4.7 million commercial buildings in the United States, only 10 percent have energy management systems or time clocks that turn lights on or off based on the time of day, he said.

University Endowment Carlton Brown, chief operating officer of building developer Full Spectrum, is finishing a smart, green 128-unit condo project in New York City's Harlem neighborhood that took more than five years to get off the ground.

Endowment Shortfall ``We were talking about a green building and a smart building and people were not really interested,'' he said. Full Spectrum is finishing the project, which includes wireless broadband in every unit and washing machines that can be reserved via Internet.

Traded Endowment Interest in smart, energy-efficient buildings is growing, especially among those who manage large facilities, such as airports, and buildings that traditionally use lots of energy, such as laboratories.

Duke Endowment That's because ``the operating costs of a building in its lifetime can be hundreds of times more expensive than the building was in the first place,'' said Doug Lockhart, who until recently worked as energy manager for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Endowment Buyer A new building at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii will be a ``net zero energy building,'' using no energy from the electric grid. The building will be cooled with piped-in 43 degrees Fahrenheit sea water and the condensation on the pipes will be used for irrigation.

Endowment Claim New systems use energy when it's cheapest.

National Endowment For The Dallas/Fort Worth Airport installed a 6 million gallon thermal storage tank that lets the airport chill air conditioner coolant in the middle of the night, when energy is cheapest, for use during the day, when energy is more expensive. This has cut cooling costs by 91 percent during periods of peak electrical demand.

Based Carnegie Endowment ``This saves real money while we use less resources and pollute less,'' said Jim Crites, executive vice president of operations at the airport.

Endowment Insurance Gray water systems, which recycle water from sinks and showers, were once largely the province of hippies.

Harvard Endowment But President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, has such systems, as will The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York, a 54-story building being developed by the Durst Organization.

Endowment Compensation Douglas and Jody Durst, co-presidents of the company, said they first became interested in environmentally conscious building when they worked on energy-saving retrofits to their older buildings during the 1970s.

Detective Endowment ``We realized there was a better way to build them from the start,'' Douglas Durst said.

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