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    ENERGY STAR products are independently certified to save energy without sacrificing features or functionality. Saving energy helps prevent climate change. Look for the ENERGY STAR label to save money on your energy bills and help protect our environment.

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8 Great Strategies to Engage Tenants on Energy Efficiency

Last Updated: 
9-9-2016

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!

Resource type: 
Communication tools
Market sector: 
Commercial real estate,
Corporate real estate
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Analysis and Key Findings from EPA's Review of the ENERGY STAR Score Model for Office Properties

Last Updated: 
7-15-2019

This five-page report summarizes the results of EPA's review of the 1-100 ENERGY STAR score model for office properties.

Topic: 
Portfolio Manager,
ENERGY STAR score calculation details,
Technical reference
Market sector: 
Corporate real estate
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DataTrends: Energy Use in Office Buildings

Last Updated: 
11-18-2016

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.

Topic: 
Portfolio Manager
Resource type: 
Research and reports,
DataTrends
Market sector: 
Corporate real estate,
Commercial real estate
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GSH Group Inc. and Meritage Properties, LLC: SPP Success Story

Last Updated: 
9-9-2016

GSH creates a $475,000 fund for energy projects at Meritage Properties, which helps save energy, reduce utility costs, offset emissions, and earn ENERGY STAR certification.

Market sector: 
Commercial real estate,
Corporate real estate
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How to Enter and Manage Tenant Spaces in ENERGY STAR® Portfolio Manager®

Last Updated: 
11-8-2019

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool helps building owners and tenants measure and track energy, water use, and waste, all in a secure online environment.

Users of Portfolio Manager enter information at the “property” level. A property can be a whole building, a campus of buildings, an individual tenant space, or even a common area within a building. This 7-page guidance document with screenshots describes how to create a tenant property, as well as how to link tenant properties to the whole building.

Topic: 
How-to guides
Market sector: 
Retail,
Corporate real estate
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Limbach Company LLC and Paradigm Properties: SPP Success Story

Last Updated: 
9-9-2016

Paradigm Properties recruits Limbach Company LLC to achieve ENERGY STAR certification.

Resource type: 
Success stories
Market sector: 
Commercial real estate,
Corporate real estate,
Service and product provider (SPP)
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National Green Building Adoption Index – 2014

Last Updated: 
11-8-2019

ENERGY STAR Award-winning partner CBRE engaged a research team from Maastricht University to measure the uptake of green building certification in the top 30 largest U.S. office markets from 2005 to 2013. The results are outlined in this 38-page report. Among the key findings are:

Resource type: 
Third-party resources,
Research and reports
Market sector: 
State & local government,
Corporate real estate,
Commercial real estate
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Successes in Sustainability

Successes in Sustainability: Landlords and Tenants Team Up to Improve Energy Efficiency

Last Updated: 
9-9-2016

This 28-page report profiles several commercial real estate owners, managers, and tenants who are tapping into the power of collaboration to overcome barriers to high-performance, sustainable buildings.  These innovative organizations demonstrate the value of retrofitting leased space as green space, measuring and sharing energy data to enable efficiency, and engaging around sustainability.  Their stories serve as models for other landlords and tenants who face challenges in coming together for top performance.

Resource type: 
Success stories
Market sector: 
Commercial real estate,
Corporate real estate
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Tenant data request: Sample letter

Last Updated: 
9-9-2016

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.

Resource type: 
Communication tools
Market sector: 
Commercial real estate,
Corporate real estate
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