Leading commercial building owners and operators in the Philadelphia area have been actively tracking the performance of their properties and demonstrating the value of benchmarking as a foundation for successful energy management.

  Green leasing can be used to overcome the “split incentive” barrier to energy efficiency in commercial buildings by aligning the financial and energy incentives of building owners and tenants. Together they can save money, conserve resources, and ensure the efficient operation of buildings. Brandywine Realty Trust utilizes two components in its lease to enable the company to track energy usage, implement cost-effective energy efficiency measures, meet energy-saving targets, and save tenants money.

The Energy Data Accelerator is designed to demonstrate low-cost, standardized approaches for providing energy data for the purpose of whole-building energy performance benchmarking.

Key accomplishments and results of partners are outlined in this fact sheet, profiling the historic expansion of data accessibility and increases in building energy benchmarking.

In order to benchmark energy data and identify efficiency opportunities, Prologis developed a multi-pronged approach to gain access to tenant utility data through the modification of lease language and coordination with utilities.

EEB Hub/IMT Utilities’ Guide to Data Access for Building Benchmarking
This paper provides recommendations for utilities on how to provide building owners and customers with improved data access for benchmarking. 

Creating Value from Benchmarking: A Utility Perspective
This IMT paper looks at benchmarking from a utilities perspective.

ESPM Data Trends
DataTrends is an ongoing series of original research and analysis from ENERGY STAR.

2013 NASUCA Resolution Supporting Automated Benchmarking of Multifamily Buildings
2013-05 Supporting Automated Benchmarking of MultiFamily Buildings for Energy Efficiency Purposes.

Green Lease Leaders
Green Lease Leaders™ is a designation created to recognize companies or brokerage teams that successfully implement green lease language into new or existing leases.