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This presentation will feature state and local governments that have established internal sustainable operations plans and policies for their own organizations as a means of operationalizing their energy and climate goals. Learn strategies to realize sustainability goals through employee orientation and programming, departmental budget innovation, and technology platform development.
Benchmarking and data management practices are generating a rich collection of readily accessible energy performance data. Learn how state and local governments are driving savings in public and private buildings, from strategic management and commissioning of public buildings to making the energy performance of commercial and multifamily buildings available and meaningful to prospective tenants and buyers.
Property owners, energy efficiency services and engineering companies, architecture firms, and state and local governments are using the Building Energy Asset Score to inform building energy efficiency investment opportunities. Panelists discuss the value of the Asset Score and its role in the energy efficiency marketplace.
Large companies are increasingly looking to advance energy efficiency within their supply chains to control costs, minimize risk, and improve their corporate sustainability credentials. As they do, a key issue is understanding the unique needs and challenges facing small businesses—a topic that is also relevant for state and local governments interested in advancing energy efficiency among small manufacturers located in their jurisdictions. Industry professionals explore this issue from a variety of different perspectives.
Who hasn’t heard the residential energy efficiency lament that homeowners do not understand energy efficiency and will not spend significant sums of money on something they don’t understand? How can programs talk with different audiences, such as low-, middle-, and high-income markets? Hear from the Better Buildings Residential Network to learn from examples that have worked well and failed miserably.
This presentation examines case studies and resources available to reaching zero net energy performance in multifamily buildings.
Energy management information systems (EMISs) are powerful; organizations that have implemented them have reported savings of up to 20% due to better energy performance and operations. However, finding the right EMIS for your organization can be difficult, and securing funding can be even harder. In this presentation, hear from organizations on how they funded their EMISs and learn about options and resources available for yours.
What incentives did homeowners respond to in a $500 million Recovery Act grant program, and what was learned from incentives that did not work so well? This presentation will utilize the Better Buildings Residential Program Solution Center to share proven strategies for energy efficiency programs.
Is your organization taking advantage of the millions of dollars utilities make available through energy efficiency programs every year? E Source provides an overview of trends in utility incentive programs, then Better Buildings partners describe their successful collaborations with utilities to make use of existing incentives and design custom incentives tailored to their buildings’ energy uses.
Commercial plug and process loads (PPLs) are projected to grow from 30% to 35% of total commercial building energy use between 2006 and 2020, due to an increase in the number of plug-in devices and the energy intensity of those devices. This presentation will outline the challenges with commercial plug load controls, along with solutions for tracking and reducing PPLs such as hardware, software, and web-based service options.
For multifamily developers that do not receive federal subsidies, actively marketing energy efficiency and other sustainability measures can catch the attention of potential tenants. Learn from other partners about how to attract residents by promoting your work to cut energy costs.
Refrigeration often accounts for over half of the energy consumption in supermarkets, grocery stores, and convenience stores. Learn how the Better Buildings Alliance is helping members reduce refrigeration energy consumption.
As local governments begin to implement energy efficiency policies and programs, the need to better understand energy savings becomes important. What energy savings can we attribute to benchmarking and disclosure laws? How do we apply data in Portfolio Manager and verify that the energy reductions were a result of efficiency practices? In this presentation, we will explore ways that local governments can measure these savings.
Home Performance (HP) XML is transforming the way home energy upgrade programs collect and transfer information from one software system to another, leading to improved contractor satisfaction, lower administrative costs, and technological advancements in the home performance industry.
In this presentation, DOE provided an overview of PUE baselining strategies that address various challenges reported by Better Buildings Challenge and Accelerator partners.
In this presentation, hear from a state government, local government, and K-12 school district that have developed innovative programs or approaches to clean energy project design including microgrids, renewable energy technologies, and energy master planning.
Restaurants use more energy per square foot than any other commercial building. Learn how DOE and Partners are helping pave the way for energy savings in the commercial food service sector.
This presentation discusses a problem-solving facilitation method from the business sector, which will use one member’s current challenge and draw on a combined 100+ years of experience of the other participants to generate solutions. All members share common problems and opportunities.
A growing number of local governments and states are collecting building benchmarking data from thousands of public and private building owners. Data cleansing is a critical step prior to analysis and interpretation of data. Learn about methodologies and principles that leading organizations are employing to cleanse benchmarking data and improve the accuracy of future year data sets.
A range of DOE programs and resources are available to help companies save energy, reduce operating costs, and improve competitiveness. In this presentation, Better Plants partners will describe how they have leveraged various resources to help them make progress toward the aggressive energy efficiency goals set by their organizations.
Appraisers’ understanding of green building benefits is critical to ensuring that buyers purchase buildings that meet their comfort and operational expectations, and sellers receive appropriate compensation for the effort spent improving and maintaining their buildings. This presentation will cover a range of resources being developed to support green appraisals, and the breakthroughs and challenges that owners and lenders have experienced when implementing them.
Learn how industry leaders are driving energy and cost savings through a range of solutions. Presentations include summaries of specific technological changes and/or improvements through consolidation and the tangible financial and environmental benefits they produced.
As facility managers face the dilemma of replacing or upgrading aging equipment, it requires careful, and sometimes nuanced calculations on the costs and benefits. In this presentation, we will learn how leading companies faced with the replace or retrofit scenario have opted to retrofit.
This presentation addresses the barriers associated with challenging a business-as-usual approach where energy efficiency often takes a back seat to concerns about reliability.
The industrial energy landscape is changing in profound ways, with new supplies of domestic natural gas driving prices down and helping improve the competitive positioning of U.S. manufacturers. Presentations will provide an overview of the industrial energy landscape, its impact on manufacturing competitiveness, and the continuing importance of industrial energy efficiency.
Join representatives from federal agencies for a half-day forum focused on the framework that supports partnerships and products that will drive adoption of high-impact technologies.
School facilities managers are looking for ways to streamline the implementation of clean energy technologies for high-performance schools that foster safe, healthy, and optimum learning environments. This presentation included special presentations and group discussion for K-12 BBC Partners and other city and state stakeholders engaged in managing education campuses.
This presentation is for building owners/operators and utilities that serve them to discuss opportunities to increase multifamily participation in efficiency programs.
New models are emerging for ensuring that the performance of existing building energy retrofits meet Watts per square feet requirements. Learn the ins and outs of these strategies from colleagues in the energy trenches.
Street lamps, area lighting, and parking lighting are some of the most costeffective opportunities for energy savings, yet they often remain untapped. Learn from organizations that are saving up to 90% on lighting costs, and learn about free technical assistance, resources, and programs like the Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking Campaign, Outdoor Lighting Accelerator, and Green Garage Certification Program.
Learn how you could achieve 45% energy savings or more by applying the Better Buildings Alliance troffer specification; learn about free tools, resources, and technical assistance available through the Interior Lighting Campaign; and learn from building owners who share results and lessons learned from recent troffer lighting upgrade projects.
Urban Ingenuity is a clean energy finance company founded by Urban Atlantic, a real-estate developer with extensive experience in structured finance, infrastructure development, affordable housing, and neighborhood revitalization.
Watch how leading CEOs and executives of U.S. companies, universities, school districts, multifamily organizations, and state and local government are taking the Better Buildings Challenge and committing to reduce the energy used across their building portfolios by 20 percent or more over ten years.
Erickson Hall, a mixed use classroom and office facility at Michigan State University (MSU), was the pilot project for MSU's commissioning of most major buildings on campus. The facility achieved $307,000 in annual energy cost savings through updates to its heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.
Spokane County's Community Services Buildings achieved 41% annual energy savings as a result of efficiency upgrades to the building's chiller system and optimizing of the HVAC control systems.
President Obama announced an ambitious initiative to make American businesses more efficient as part of his plan to ensure that America wins the future by out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building the competition.
Secretary Chu announced the first 14 partners to join the Better Buildings Challenge while at the Clinton Global Initiative America Conference in Chicago.