Guardian Service Industries, Inc.

Guardian Security Service is among the top-rated security services companies throughout the tristate providing highly trained  security guards  and  patrol officers  to a wide array of industries and in many different settings.  We provide highly trained security guards and patrol officers to a wide array of industries and in many different settings and our security guards frequently work in commercial buildings, residential communities, hospitals, transportation hubs, and government agencies. Depending upon the security services you require, guards can be put on patrol to supervise the front door for large organizations, oversee transportation security, or protect cash or valuables. We can also assist you with security services for neighborhood patrols, shopping malls, religious institutions, universities, gated communities, parking lots, apartment buildings, art galleries, and many more important venues. If you feel that your current security program needs improvement, please

By  EILENE ZIMMERMAN On a Thursday night in October 2013, Simon Brooks packed his belongings and drove west toward Silicon Valley, thinking he was on his way to creating the next Scrabble app, a word game he called Gadzookery. He had little to lose. Mr. Brooks owed more on his house in Louisville, Ky., than it was worth. His marriage was over and he had been working in restaurants and bars for two years, ever since the financial crisis forced him to leave his job as a mortgage broker. “I put my dogs and my bags in the car and drove to the Dojo,” Mr. Brooks said. He was referring to  Hacker Dojo  in Silicon Valley, a community space for technology start-ups whose members (fees generally start at $125 a month) have round-the-clock access. The hacker space proved to be the key to his new enterprise — just not in the way he had imagined. Mr. Brooks arrived with $12,000 and a rough version of his educational word game. He hoped to assemble a team at the Dojo to help him rebuild i

ENERActive Solutions, an Edison Energy company, today announced that it has been chosen by the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) to conduct audits and retro-commissioning projects on municipal buildings throughout New York City. ENERActive’s consultation will ensure that DCAS complies with New York City’s Local Law 87 (LL87), which requires buildings over 50,000 gross square feet to undergo periodic energy audit and retro-commissioning measures to help building owners and managers measure and develop an action plan to save energy. “It is an honor to partner with DCAS on this very exciting and important project in the initial phase of audits and recommendations,” said Dan Weeden, president and CEO, ENERActive Solutions. “Our mission is to offer solutions that will ensure compliance with LL87 and provide forward-looking plans that will allow these important facilities – such as schools, public transportation depots and hospitals – to utilize energy

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is an internationally recognized green building certification system,  providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO 2  emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts. Developed by the  U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) , LEED provides building owners and operators a concise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions. LEED is flexible enough to apply to all building types – commercial as well as residential. It works throughout the building lifecycle – design and construction, operations and maintenance, tenant fitout, and significant

Patricia Kirk Energy-efficient buildings have lower operating costs , but also tend to command higher rents and enjoy higher occupancy and tenant retention levels than traditional buildings. A recent  Energy Efficiency Survey , developed by the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) in collaboration with the Institute for Market Transformation, looked at what motivates office building owners to improve energy performance. The survey focused on how financial methods used to evaluate capital expenditures impact decisions to invest in improving energy efficiency. IREM and the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) distributed the survey to their members and received 307 responses, which represented 1.7 percent of the total survey distribution. The survey found that most respondents use simple payback calculations to evaluate energy efficiency projects, usually basing decisions on recovering the investment in one to two years. The study revealed that this simple pay

BY  REW   •   FEBRUARY 9, 2017 Construction costs in New York City increased by approximately 4 percent in 2016, which is slightly less than the 5 percent rate of cost inflation that was experienced annually throughout the five boroughs from 2013 through 2015. By comparison, U.S. construction costs rose between 3 and 4 percent in 2016 after rising between 2.5 to 3 percent annually from 2013 through 2015. The construction executives interviewed for this report expect that New York City construction costs will continue to accelerate at roughly the current rate of one percent per quarter through 2017. During the height of last decade’s building boom, construction cost increases exceeded 6 percent nationally but were nearly twice as high in New York City, with reports of construction cost increases reaching 12 percent in 2006 and 11 percent in 2007.  In 2009, in the aftermath of the Great Recession, costs declined both nationally and in New York City and registered a nominal g

BY  REW   •   FEBRUARY 8, 2017 The move represents a significant expansion of the partnership between the City and private and institutional sector leaders, who have committed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their buildings by 30 percent or more in 10 years. To achieve these reductions, existing participants as well as new commercial owner and tenant participants have committed to work together to identify strategies for co-ordinated implementation of energy efficiency projects in their buildings. Today’s expansion of the NYC Carbon Challenge to the 22 commercial owners and tenants adds more than 58 million square feet to the Challenge and is projected to reduce citywide GHG emissions by an additional 60,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) – the equivalent of taking almost 13,000 cars off the roads – and result in an estimated $50 million in energy cost savings. The launch of the NYC Carbon Challenge for Commercial Owners and Tenants marks