Filter Results: Efficiency
Commercial buildings the focus of new climate initiative
Many cities, as well as private citizens, are making small leaps to reduce energy consumption. What many overlook, or are too under-funded to take on, are large commercial buildings- arguably the largest drainer of resources in urban areas … more
$20 Trillion Worth of Investors Call for GHG Targets
A group of 285 investors worth $20 trillion, including ABN Amro, Swiss Re, BNP Paribas, HSBC and CalPERS, have called on governments to create short-, medium- and long-term greenhouse gas targets, and enforceable legal mechanisms and timelines for delivering those reductions … more
Benchmarking Buildings for Energy Efficiency
Under a new city ordinance that takes effect this month, all buildings over 10,000 square feet–both commercial and multifamily residential–must report their annual energy usage to the city … more
Case Study: Verifying if Green-Rated Buildings Perform As Expected
Surprisingly, recent studies have shown that a majority of LEED-rated buildings don’t know how they are performing, and don’t perform at the level expected. In 2007, a national building ownership company built a smart office building that achieved a LEED Silver rating. But was the energy efficient structure proving its worth? … more
Standard 90.1-2007 Established as National Reference Standard for Federal, Commercial Buildings by DOE
Commercial buildings, including federal and high-rise residential buildings, must now meet requirements inASHRAE/IESNA’s 2007 energy efficiency standard, under recent rulings issued by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) that finds the standard saves more energy than the 2004 version … more
Bringing retailers and landlords together on sustainability
What did we learn? Most importantly, landlords and retailers both want to accelerate their building sustainability efforts. And both recognize that more collaboration is the path towards creating not only more sustainable retail buildings, but more sustainable business models in general … more
Companies and Cities Take on Better Buildings Challenge
The challenge is part of the president’s Better Buildings Initiative launched in February as a way to “catalyze” private sector investment in commercial building upgrades, and make commercial buildings in the nation 20 percent more efficient in the next ten years … more
Businesses taking ‘green’ to new heights
More than 800 chief financial officers around the world, including 499 in the U.S. found 51 percent were cutting utility bills with more energy-efficient equipment … more
Better Buildings Initiative Sets New Energy Information Reporting Standards
Announced during the State of the Union address, the Better Buildings Initiative seeks to make commercial buildings 20 percent more energy efficient by 2020 through energy upgrades … more
Building Owners Expect Energy Price Spike, Target 12% Energy Reduction
Eighty percent of building owners expect double-digit energy price increases over the next year, which has prompted an average energy reduction target of 12 percent … more