"There is an elephant in the room but it seems that hardly anyone knows it's there," he said. "Those in the building industry see and recognize it for the monstrosity it is, but most people don't know that they're essentially avoiding a huge energy issue. Everywhere you look, there's talk of increased fuel efficiency for vehicles, alternative fuels, and compact fluorescent light bulbs. These are admirable efforts, and I would never want to detract from those. But the elephant in the corner--our world's existing building stock--constitutes roughly 30 to 40 percent of our primary energy use, easily larger than either transportation or industry. It's time we started focusing on it."The entire speech can be read at www.ashrae.org/harrison
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