Thousands will gather Nov. 14-16 in San Francisco for the annual Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, sponsored by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Industry leaders and practitioners from around the world have attended for the over the past decade to learn about green building best practices and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) standards, while engaging...
Johnson Controls partnered with the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) to commission a survey of more than 2,800 decision-makers responsible for managing commercial buildings and their energy use across the world during April, 2010.
As Europe plans the next steps to improve building energy efficiency, a report from the Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) analyzes the financial instruments available to fund deep retrofits. It also looks at the types of buildings involved and the renovation measures the financial programs support. Among the key conclusions:
Johnson Controls partnered with the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) to commission a survey of more than 2,800 decision-makers responsible for managing commercial buildings and their energy use across the world during April, 2010.
Commercial building owners spend 30 percent of their operating budgets on energy. They can lower these costs significantly – while reducing carbon emissions and improving occupant comfort – by collecting and analyzing energy data and using it to inform operating decisions. Today’s buildings can have intelligent devices and advanced, integrated systems that generate...
Many people stay in their homes for five years or less – not enough time to benefit from energy upgrades. In this video, Cynthia Adams, executive director of the Local Energy Alliance Program – Virginia, explores how to make sure energy efficiency adds value to properties when they are sold. The key is to provide data in forms real estate agents, appraisers, bankers and prospective...
Most building owners and occupants do not have any knowledge about the energy performance of their buildings. This information gap prevents property and financial markets from valuing energy-efficient homes and buildings. Internationally, new government policies are starting to require the disclosure of energy performance. Generally, these policies obligate owners to benchmark...
The City of Melbourne has created a new program for financing energy retrofits in commercial buildings, using a variation of the property-assessed clean energy (PACE) financing model in the U.S. Melbourne’s program has some important features that cities and countries around the world may be able replicate. As part of its Zero Net Emissions by 2020 Strategy, Melbourne has launched a 1200...
In this video, Paul Mathew, of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, describes how the U.S. Department of Energy is developing the Buildings Performance Database (BPD) to provide investors with actuarial data for the energy savings from building energy efficiency projects. The database of information includes more than 50,000 buildings.
Energy efficient buildings and urban environments are vital to reaching goals on climate, energy and development in emerging economies. On Aug. 30, 2012, representatives from the Institute for Building Efficiency briefed members of the World Bank Energy Efficiency Community of Practice on the Institute’s second-edition report, Driving Transformation to Energy Efficient Buildings: Policies...