Roughly one-third to one-half of the energy consumption in commercial, multi-tenanted buildings is driven by the behavior, equipment, and operating decisions of the tenants. Landlords (owners and managers) seeking to improve the energy performance of their buildings need to encourage and work with tenants to adopt best practices for energy management.
- The tenant improvement period offers a great opportunity to build energy efficiency into a tenant space. These fact sheets help your property teams, leasing agents, and brokers communicate the value of considering energy efficiency during tenant improvements. See the fact sheet for large office tenants andsmall office tenants.
- The Green Tenant Toolkit was designed by the Business Council on Climate Change to enable partnerships with owners or managers, occupiers, and agents to minimize operating costs, identify split incentives and offering best practice solutions
- The U.S. EPA has developed Eight Great Strategies to Engage Tenants on Energy Efficiency, which demonstrates how ENERGY STAR program resources can be leveraged to drive meaningful tenant engagement, and also provides proven best practices from champion partners
- EPA ENERGY STAR published the report Successes in Sustainability: Landlords and Tenants Team Up to Improve Energy Efficiency to demonstrate examples of successful tenant-landlord collaboration to improve energy performance in leased space.