Commercial real estate

USAA Real Estate Company’s Energy Policy

Creating an energy policy is a key step in formalizing your organization's commitment to saving energy. After all, you’ll be much more likely to achieve lasting results when energy efficiency is integrated as a core element of your organization’s business practices.

USAA Real Estate Company’s policy outlines commitments in the following areas:

  • Assess Performance - Benchmark
  • Create an Action Plan
  • Create an Action Plan – Determine Roles and Resources
  • Implement Action Plan – Build Capacity

TRANSWESTERN’s Standard Practices for Energy

Creating an energy policy is a key step in formalizing your organization's commitment to saving energy. After all, you’ll be much more likely to achieve lasting results when energy efficiency is integrated as a core element of your organization’s business practices.

TRANSWESTERN’s Standard Practices for Energy outline the scope, goals and performance metrics, and responsible parties for implementing its practices.

Beacon Capital Partners, LLC’s Energy Policy

Creating an energy policy is a key step in formalizing your organization's commitment to saving energy. After all, you’ll be much more likely to achieve lasting results when energy efficiency is integrated as a core element of your organization’s business practices.

Issued by Beacon Capital Partners’ President, Fred Seigel, in 2008, Beacon’s Energy Policy resulted in sustainability becoming a core value integral to all the organization does.

Tenant data request: Sample letter

Use this sample letter to request energy data from your tenants. This is helpful for instances where you want whole-building energy data, but only have access to energy bills for a portion of the space. The letter discusses what it means to be an ENERGY STAR partner, why benchmarking is important, and what exactly you need your tenants to do.

DataTrends: Energy Use in Office Buildings

This 2-page factsheet summarizes the energy, operational, and property characteristics of office buildings benchmarking in Portfolio Manager. Other statistics are also presented in an easy-to-read format.

The factsheet is part of the Portfolio Manager DataTrends series, which uses the data available in Portfolio Manager to examine benchmarking and trends in energy and water consumption in hundreds of thousands of U.S. commercial buildings.

Bring Your Green to Work: Cubicle poster

Use this poster to promote energy efficiency in your workplace by printing or displaying it in your office or distributing it to your coworkers. The poster contains a few easy tips you can use to save energy at work. This poster is a part of EPA's ENERGY STAR Bring Your Green to Work campaign, which offers tools and interactive resources that can help you and your coworkers plan to reduce energy use in the office.

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