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On July 19, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the 2017 Green Ribbon Schools awardees, recognizing two Better Buildings Challenge partners and one Zero Energy Schools Accelerator partner for their sustainability efforts and ecologically-minded student engagement.
Fairfax County Public Schools…
The Top 10 Solutions for July provides a refreshing taste of new solutions to cool off from the dog days of summer. If you were excited to see eight solutions new to the Top 10 in June, the month of July does not disappoint - eight additional projects have climbed the ranks over the past 31…
The CleanMed conference and exposition is a significant annual event for those advancing sustainability within the healthcare sector. Influential healthcare stakeholders convene with vendors of cleaner and safer products and services to propel forward a stronger commitment towards sustainable…
This summer, the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Alliance announced the new class of Green Lease Leaders, a designation to recognize companies that have successfully modernized their lease language to include energy…
More than 100 energy managers, utility experts, and other industrial sector vendors and stakeholders gathered in New Orleans on June 20-22 for the Industrial Energy Technology Conference (IETC). IETC was a rare opportunity for the industrial energy community to network and learn about industrial…
Better Buildings Affiliate Seventhwave advances sustainability as an independent non-profit through energy consulting, continuing education, research and program design for the residential and commercial building sectors. Want a piece of their institutional wisdom? Based on recent projects,…
With all the excitement in the run-up to the Better Buildings Summit, you may have missed some of the great new resources that were published in the Better Buildings Solution Center! Take a minute to check out some of the newest solutions from Better Buildings Challenge partners:
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The recognition process is simple, but its message is significant. Local governments partnering with DOE’s Better Buildings Challenge stake their claim as leaders in energy efficiency, and that leadership receives recognition. This year, 10 Better Buildings Challenge partners were recognized in…
The Top 10 Solutions for June has a new summer look – this season several new partner projects and solutions have made it to the top that we are excited to share with you. If you thought May’s Top 10 was jam-packed with energy savings, June’s will take it a step further. This Top 10 includes a…
This blog concludes our highlights from this year’s Better Buildings Summit Showcase Tours!
The National Museum of Natural History opened in 1910, and was among the first Smithsonian buildings constructed exclusively to house the nation’s collections and research facilities. A group of 25 Better…
Twenty Summit attendees were treated to a tour of one of D.C.’s most sustainable buildings – the headquarters of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). The mission of ULI is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. Attendees…
As it becomes commonplace for manufactures to focus on energy efficiency within their own operations, some are beginning to look beyond their four walls to help improve energy performance in their supply chains.
Between 40 and 60 percent of a manufacturer’s energy footprint is created upstream in…
Stay tuned for more highlights from this year’s Better Buildings Summit Showcase Tours.George C. Marshall High School is one of 28 high schools in the Fairfax County Public School District (FCPS) serving over 2,000 students and 100 faculty members. The Falls Church, Virginia facility was renovated…
Stay tuned for more highlights from this year’s Better Buildings Summit Showcase Tours.
Better Buildings Alliance partner REI lead a group of 20 Summit attendees on a tour of the Uline Arena, also known as Washington Coliseum. Originally built in 1941, in 2016 the Arena reopened as a REI’s new D.…
Stay tuned for more highlights from this year’s Better Buildings Summit Showcase Tours.
Built in 1965, the Washington Hilton is a regular host to the White House Correspondents Dinner, the National Prayer Breakfast, and in recent years, the Better Buildings Summit! Hilton Worldwide, a flagship…
The Latitude Apartments are a new 12-story, 265-unit midrise multifamily development in Arlington, Virginia, located directly across the street from the Virginia Square Metro station. Tim McDonald from the Penrose Group guided a capacity tour of Summit attendees through the luxury building’s green…
With a 2008 energy baseline, Shorenstein Properties committed 21 million square feet to the Better Buildings Challenge, and the results have been impressive, as the commercial real estate giant achieved 20 percent energy savings across its building portfolio.
Shorenstein Properties LLC, one of the…
The process of becoming an active Home Energy Score Assessor is now easier and more streamlined than ever before. With the release of Updated Quality Assurance and Mentoring Protocols, there are more ways to meet mentoring and quality assurance requirements. Previously, Assessors had to be…
Our very own Cindy Zhu, Fellow in the DOE Building Technologies Office, and Holly Carr, Energy Technology Program Specialist for DOE, contributed an informative and educational bylined article to the June 2017 issue of Scotsman Guide magazine, offering insight into the risks and rewards of…
On May 16, the Department of Energy recognized Schneider Electric for its goal achievement in the Better Buildings, Better Plants Challenge, meeting its goal of 26 percent energy savings over the course of nine years.
Schneider Electric is the global specialist in energy management, offering…