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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has created a new Multifamily Utility Benchmarking Toolkit to support multifamily housing providers as they undertake utility benchmarking at their properties. This resource is intended to demystify the utility benchmarking process for…
Well over half of the existing multifamily housing stock in the U.S. dates to (and in many cases predates) the Reagan Administration – which means a lot of multifamily owners are looking to upgrade and improve their buildings. Through the Better Buildings Challenge, we are seeing that energy…
Guests at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel will be able to sleep easier thanks to extensive energy efficiency upgrades behind the scenes. The hotel, located across the street from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, completed a retrofit of outdated facility equipment, including chillers, condenser pumps…
Boston is committed to ensuring our city continues to be a healthy, innovative and thriving place to live and work for decades to come. Ensuring that we use energy and all of our resources as efficiently as possible is critical to our success.
Through its partnership with the Better…
Over the past three years, the Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Alliance Plug and Process Loads (PPL) Technical Solutions Team has tracked utility incentives and rebates for PPL efficiency solutions across the nation. To hit regulatory targets and promote energy efficiency, utilities offer…
In recognizing the enormous energy and cost savings opportunity across 23,000 commercial and industrial buildings and one million residential units, the City of Chicago launched the Retrofit Chicago Energy Challenge to help building owners actualize potential savings. The Challenge brings together…
Through the Better Buildings Challenge SWAP, DOE has found a new way to highlight energy leaders and make it fun to see how peer to peer sharing – across very different buildings and businesses --can drive even greater energy and cost savings. Launching today is our third SWAP featuring the cities…
Home Energy Scoring Tool Updated to Include New Technologies
This February, Home Energy Score released the latest version of the Home Energy Scoring Tool - the software that calculates the Score and generates Home Energy Score reports – with new options to input an expanded array of home…
Strong leadership is all about having the ability to see the long view and the foresight and patience to seize the right opportunity. Family-owned and operated for six generations, Better Plants Challenge partner C.F. Martin & Co. (Martin Guitar) has provided value for its customers since 1833…
Already, over 600 partners, national experts, and speakers are signed up for the 2017 Better Buildings Summit. And with just four weeks to register, we anticipate the largest Summit ever. Download the Summit App or preview the print program online now. Starting May 15, the Summit…
Over 190 industrial organizations – representing close to 2,600 industrial facilities nationwide – have joined the Better Plants program. They leverage the program to save money, develop their workforce, and boost their manufacturing competitiveness. Better Plants partners benefit from the…
The City of San Diego has published a new Implementation Model highlighting their city-wide lighting retrofit project, and the process by which they were able to execute and pay for it.
In response to California’s energy crisis in the early 2000s, the City of San Diego created a new department –…
One of the more unique challenges when performing energy efficiency upgrades in a university setting can be the needs of more specialized facilities on campus – like chemistry and biology buildings. These facilities usually have classrooms and laboratories, and those labs are home to very sensitive…
Our Top-10 Solutions in February rounded out the winter with a bang, and the top solutions in March will have you ready to "spring into" your energy efficiency practices. Check out our Top-10 solutions for March:1. Better Buildings Financing Navigator The U.S. Department of Energy…
Checking Out Savings at Arlington County’s Energy Lending Library
Better Buildings local government partner Arlington County, Virginia has come up with a new way to bring the benefits of energy efficiency to the masses: an Energy Lending Library!
As a public education service of the Arlington…
How do you save energy when your building operates 24 hours? Better Buildings Challenge partner Columbia Association found the answer through lighting retrofits and cogeneration. Columbia Association retrofitted their most energy-intensive property, the Supreme Sports Club in Columbia, Maryland,…
Efficiency upgrades often start with lighting retrofits, as aging lighting systems can often be a burden to your energy bill. Owning a commercial building can be expensive and even more so when all the day-to-day operational costs are factored in, especially when energy consumption practices are…
The City of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is capturing impressive energy and cost savings from recent renovations to its water filtration plant and its own office building.
LADWP is the nation's largest municipally-owned utility, providing water and…
Earlier this month on March 12-14th in Orlando FL, Michael Deru and Marta Schantz represented the Advanced RTU Campaign at the SPECS Show: the retail event for store innovation. SPECS brings together leaders from the nation’s top retailers and suppliers to learn, share ideas, develop business…
Kentucky’s Bullitt County Public School District (BCPS) has experienced a lot of expansion and growth system-wide, adding 600,000 square feet of new space in the last decade alone. Even the older buildings are expanding! For example, Mt. Washington Elementary was originally built in 1974, with 51,…