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2014 National Building Competition FAQs

2014 National Building Competition FAQs

Last Updated: 
12-12-2016

Read these Frequently Asked Questions to learn more about EPA’s 2014 ENERGY STAR® National Building Competition. This four-page document provides information on recognition opportunities, eligibility, team formation, ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager®, and benchmarking and improving water efficiency.

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2014 National Building Competition rules

2014 National Building Competition rules

Last Updated: 
12-12-2016

Read the rules for EPA’s 2014 ENERGY STAR® National Building Competition. For the first time ever, the annual competition recognized teams for energy and water saving achievements.  

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2016 FAQs

2016 National Building Competition FAQs

Last Updated: 
12-12-2016

Read these Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to learn more about EPA's 2016 ENERGY STAR National Building Competition: BOOTCAMP. This five-page document provides information on recognition opportunities, eligibility, teams, ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, the Data Release Report, and benchmarking and improving water efficiency.

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2016 rules of the game

2016 National Building Competition rules

Last Updated: 
12-12-2016

Learn the rules for competing in EPA's 2016 ENERGY STAR National Building Competition: BOOTCAMP.

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Build Your Own Battle Competition Calendar

Build Your Own Battle Competition Calendar

Last Updated: 
2-13-2018

Use this calendar, based on the internal calendar EPA used for a year-long National Building Competition, to inform your Build Your Own Battle competition timeline. The calendar provides columns for you to set your own unique dates for your competition's milestones, and is organized by phases of a competition, including registration, final data collection, and winner annoucements.

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Build Your Own Battle Promotional Communications Packet

Last Updated: 
2-13-2018

Use these materials, including talking points, promotional ideas, social media guide, and template newsletter article, stakeholder letter, press release, and blast email to help you promote your own ENERGY STAR® Battle of the Buildings competition!

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Build Your Own Battle Template Competition Emails

Last Updated: 
2-13-2018

Use these templates as a starting point for emails you’ll likely send at each stage of your competition, including registration, kick-off, midpoint check-in, final weigh-in, and winner announcement. Fill in the templates with your competition details and keep in contact with your participants throughout your competition through email and social media. The template also includes sample instructions to include in a Data Request within Portfolio Manager.

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Rules of the Battle

Build Your Own Battle: Rules of the Battle

Last Updated: 
3-7-2018

Use these template rules, based on the rules EPA set for a year-long National Building Competition, to inform your Build Your Own Battle competition rules.

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Competitor Data Tracker Template

Competitor Data Tracker Template

Last Updated: 
3-7-2018

Use this template Competitor Data Tracker spreadsheet to help you manage the data from your organization's energy- or water-efficiency competition. It includes many of the alerts and checks EPA refined through seven years of managing competitions for thousands of buildings. Make sure to review the Data Management Guide for more information on how to manage the data analysis for an organizitoinal energy efficeiecny competition. 

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Data Management Guide

Energy Efficiency Competition Data Management Guide

Last Updated: 
3-7-2018

Use this 18-page guide to walk through each step of the data management process during an organizational energy- or water-efficiency competition. The guide covers how to design the rules within the constrainsts of the available data and how to analyze competitor data and identify the winners. 

The guide also contains additional resources to assist the Data Manager of an efficiency competition:

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