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Bring Your Green to Work: "Lunch & learn" email invitation (Industrial version)
Planning an employee "lunch and learn" session at your industrial site? Tailor this email invitation from EPA's "Bring Your Green to Work with ENERGY STAR" suite of employee education tools.
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Bring Your Green to Work: "Lunch & learn" email invitation (Office version)
Customize this email invitation for a traditional office setting to invite everyone to a "lunch and learn" on the basics about saving energy.
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Bring Your Green to Work: "Lunch & learn" presentation for employees
Use this ready-made PowerPoint presentation and speaker notes to deliver a fun, interactive 60-minute training session for employees and co-workers. Topics include the importance of energy efficiency and how everyone can find small ways to save energy at work.
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Commercial building designView All Resources >
Energy Design Guidance Checklist
This checklist will help you establish energy efficiency goals for your commercial building design project. It will guide you to think through how best to assemble your team, set energy goals, develop your design, and achieve Design to Earn the ENERGY STAR for your project.
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ENERGY STAR Challenge for Architects
Submit your Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR architecture projects to participate in the ENERGY STAR Challenge for Architects.
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Letter of Intent: Architect of Record (AOR)
This letter serves to notify EPA that you, an architect of record, are submitting a project for consideration for Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR. The letter also signifies that your project is expected to earn an ENERGY STAR score of 75 or greater in Portfolio Manager.
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Communications resourcesView All Resources >
8 Great Strategies to Engage Tenants on Energy Efficiency
This 45-slide PDF presentation details eight ways to engage your employees and tenants in saving energy. It also includes plenty of examples from successful ENERGY STAR partners!
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Brochure: ENERGY STAR for Commercial Buildings and Industrial Plants
This brochure provides an at-a-glance overview of the ENERGY STAR program for commercial buildings and industrial plants. Download or order free copies to distribute to corporate management, employees, tenants, and the public.
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Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR: Sample building design profile
Use this sample profile template to write about your commercial building design project that has achieved EPA's Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR designation.
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Energy management guidanceView All Resources >
2003 CBECS National Median Source Energy Use and Performance Comparisons by Building Type
Use this guide to determine the most appropriate energy use performance target for your building. Performance targets are based on building type.
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A Dealer Guide to ENERGY STAR®: Putting Energy into Profits
The purpose of this 33-page guide is to help automobile dealers and their managers learn about opportunities to save energy and reduce utility costs. Saving energy also reduces emissions of greenhouse gases that may contribute to climate change.
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Assessing Plant Performance for Energy Savings
This presentation discusses various levels of plant energy assessments and provides resources to help you get started.
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Financial resourcesView All Resources >
A Look Inside the Cash Flow Opportunity Calculator: Calculations and Methodology
The Cash Flow Opportunity Calculator helps inform strategic decisions about financing energy efficiency projects. This document provides an explanation of the calculations and methodology at work behind the calculator.
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Building Upgrade Value Calculator
The Building Upgrade Value Calculator lets you analyze the financial value of efficiency-related capital investments in commercial real estate.
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Cash Flow Opportunity Calculator
The Cash Flow Opportunity Calculator helps inform strategic decisions about financing energy efficiency projects.
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Building Energy Use Benchmarking Guidance
This document provides benchmarking guidance and reviews the benchmarking requirements for federal facilities per the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007. Use this document to understand and implement EISA 2007 benchmarking requirements for federal buildings.
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DataTrends: Benchmarking and Energy Savings
The Portfolio Manager DataTrends series is the first-ever analysis of aggregate data stored within ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, pulled from a pool of hundreds of thousands of commercial buildings across the United States.
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DataTrends: Energy Use Benchmarking
The Portfolio Manager DataTrends series is the first-ever analysis of aggregate data stored within ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, pulled from a pool of hundreds of thousands of commercial buildings across the United States.
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Products and purchasingView All Resources >
Save Energy, Money and Prevent Pollution with Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Exit Signs
This two-page technical sheet outlines the advantages of using LED exit signs, potential savings, features, and how to identify what type of exit sign you currently have in your building.
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RecognitionView All Resources >
How to apply for the ENERGY STAR
This training document takes you through the step-by-step process for applying for ENERGY STAR certification for your building.
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How to Apply the ENERGY STAR Certified Building Decal
Download these step-by-step instructions to make sure that your ENERGY STAR certified building or plant decal goes on the right way, every time. Includes a list of supplies, paper templates, and instructions for how to turn your decal into a sleek glass plaque.
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Ideas for promoting your ENERGY STAR certification
Browse through these ideas and suggestions for ways to celebrate earning EPA's ENERGY STAR for your building or plant. This document also includes a sample itinerary for an event or ceremony.
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Research and reportsView All Resources >
Analysis of Job Creation and Energy Cost Savings From Building Energy Rating and Disclosure Policy
This study, by the Institute for Market Transformation and the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, analyzes the potential of a national building energy rating and disclosure policy to create jobs and reduce energy-related expenditures in commer
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Benchmarking and Disclosure: Lessons from Leading Cities
Read this report from A Better City and Meister Consultants Group, Inc., on behalf of the Boston Green Ribbon Commission’s Commercial Real Estate Working Group, to learn about the benchmarking and disclosure policies that are becoming a trend in major cities across America.
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Building Energy Transparency: A Framework for Implementing… Energy Rating & Disclosure Policy
This report is an outcome of a roundtable convened in late 2010 by the IMT and senior policy implementers from 10 states and cities, national building energy efficiency experts, and leaders from the commercial real estate industry.
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Service and product provider (SPP) resourcesView All Resources >
ABM Engineering Services and USAA Real Estate Company: SPP Success Story
ABM Engineering Services assists USAA Real Estate Company in achieving 25% reductions in energy and water use throughout USAA's commercial portfolio.
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Advantage IQ and The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.: SPP Success Story
A&P partners with Advantage IQ and uses ENERGY STAR benchmarking to drive energy savings.
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Aelux and Dresser Inc. Teaming Profile
Aelux retrofits over 600 lighting fixtures at Dresser site, saving over $300,000 a year in energy costs.
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Success storiesView All Resources >
Award Recipient of the ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry Boeing Long Beach - Douglas Center Complex
This is a profile of how the Boeing Long Beach - Douglas Center Complex achieved the ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry.
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Colorado Springs School District 11 − Achieving Healthy Indoor Learning Environments Through Energy Efficiency Upgrades
Colorado Springs School District (SD) 11 provides an outstanding example of how integrated energy and indoor air quality (IAQ) management programs can improve learning environments for students.
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ENERGY STAR Success Story: Staples, Inc.
Staples has the distinction of being one of the first retailers to benchmark its entire portfolio of over 1,500 retail stores and 200 distribution centers.
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Target FinderView All Resources >
How to use Target Finder
This training document walks you through using Target Finder to calculate metrics such as:
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Target Finder
EPA's ENERGY STAR Target Finder is the no-cost online tool that enables architects and building owners to set energy targets and receive an ENERGY STAR energy performance score for projects during the design process.
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Technical documentationView All Resources >
ENERGY STAR Guide for Licensed Professionals
This guide provides everything you need to know about verifying applications for ENERGY STAR certification. It outlines the step-by-step process and is required reading if you’re verifying applications for ENERGY STAR certification.
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Third-party resourcesView All Resources >
An Eye on Energy Performance (Provider, March 2011)
This one-page Provider article tells how proper installation of new equipment and diagnostic testing of existing systems can achieve surprising levels of energy efficiency, even in older buildings.
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Does Green Pay Off?
This study, co-authored by Co-Star and Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate, provides some comparison data on ENERGY STAR and LEED certified buildings versus non-ENERGY STAR or Non-LEED certified office property from the entire United States using the CoStar data base.
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Utilities/ Energy efficiency program administratorsView All Resources >
EEPS Partnership Agreement Packet
Interested in partnering with EPA to become an ENERGY STAR Energy Efficiency Program Sponsor (EEPS)? Utility and energy delivery organizations can use this packet to review eligibility criteria and fill out a Partnership Agreement.
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