Intro: “Born in East L.A.,” by Cheech & Chong

Discussed:

• The Cheech
• The Mercury (Union Bank, Getty Realty Building) – Claud Beelman, converted to residential in 2007
• Local Law 97 – New York City
• Empire State Building retrofit by Johnson Controls
• Ranking of NYC buildings for energy performance
• Shift of LEED from incentive-based program to code
• Concrete cage match: Walter Netsch vs William Pereira
• Consider also Max Abramowitz
• Boston City Hall
• Early recognition of embodied energy impact, 1976-1980: Energy Use for Building Construction, Richard G. Stein & Associates + Center for Advanced Computation at the University of Illinois
• New Energy from Old Buildings, National Trust, 1981

Outro: “Concrete,” by the Darkness