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Revisiting Building Portfolio Energy Strategy
Commercial buildings consume 46 percent of all building energy in the United States. Most of those buildings—potentially as many as 70–80 percent—are owned as part of a larger portfolio of buildings and are managed by a central entity.
This Old House
RMI Senior Consultant Elaine Gallagher Adams weatherized her 1,800-square-foot 100-year-old house, reducing annual energy costs significantly. Here's how she did it.
Discovering “Green Gold” in Indianapolis
Indianapolis, like cities across the nation, faces the challenge of reducing resource use and saving taxpayer dollars. The retrofit of the Indianapolis City-County Building provided the spark for the mayor and city staff to begin the process of comprehensively addressing energy use across the entire Indianapolis municipal building portfolio.
Pioneering “Pay for Performance” in the Pacific Northwest
Washington State, the land of coffee and clouds, is at it again. As if it is not enough to lead the country in caffeine consumed per capita and cardiac arrest recovery rates, it is now hard at work innovating on how to capture building energy efficiency.
Chicago Steps Up Retrofit Pledge, But Is It Enough?
Last month, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel extended the Retrofit Chicago program to commercial buildings. But is it enough?