Tools and 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.
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 commercial and multifamily residential buildings. The analysis predicts such a policy would create more than 23,000 net new jobs in 2015 and more than 59,000 jobs in 2020, resulting from increased demand for energy efficiency services and technologies, and from the reinvestment of energy cost savings by consumers and businesses into the economy.
Balance Engineering and Eli Lily Teaming Profile
Balance Engineering identifies $3 million in energy savings at Lilly facility.
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.
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. This report summarizes lessons learned from the first U.S. cities to implement benchmarking and disclosure programs with interviews from city representatives as well as members of the federal government. The intent of these benchmarking and disclosure initiatives is to create market transparency and show building owners the value of improving a property's energy performance.
Bentall Kennedy’s Corporate Sustainability 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.
Signed by Bentall Kennedy’s Chief Executive Officer, Gary Whitelaw, in 2011, Bentall Kennedy’s Corporate Sustainability Policy details its commitment to maximizing the benefits and mitigating any detrimental outcomes by adopting best practices aligned with corporate social responsibility (CSR) and responsible property investing (RPI) principles.
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. The purpose was to discuss best practices for implementing commercial building benchmarking and disclosure policies. Many of these approaches have broad applicability both to current policy implementers and to those that may implement rating and disclosure policies in the future.
Commercial Building Electricity Consumption: The Role of Structure Quality, Management, and Contract Incentives
Read this paper, by researches at UCLA, Maastricht University, and UC Berkeley, to learn about the electricity consumption of commercial buildings. The paper looks at a large sample of buildings from California over a 10-year period. The paper discusses the impact of structure quality on electricity consumption, and also explores the role that tenant behavior and tenant incentives play in determining a building’s environmental performance.
CoreNet Global/Jones Lang LaSalle Sustainability survey
This paper explores a 2010 survey conducted by CoreNet Global and Jones Lang LaSalle, which revealed a trend among corporate real estate executives toward sustainability strategies. The report explores the consideration of sustainability when determining location, the willingness to pay more for green space, and the workplace benefits of sustainability, such as employee health and productivity.
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. The results show the financial benefits of investing in sustainable real estate.
