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- Environmental Sustainability, Financial Management
Using ENERGY STAR for Capital Planning Capital planning often requires property teams to make decisions about building systems long before those systems reach the end of their useful lives. Energy performance data can help inform those decisions by showing wh [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Financial Management
A Reinvestment Approach to Budgeting As we continue towards the end of another budget season, many of us are moving through a marathon of long hours to create our budgets. We are working to create a budget that meets the needs of the building and the financ [...] - Environmental Sustainability
How to Investigate Changes to Your ENERGY STAR Score A major shift in a building’s ENERGY STAR score can quickly catch a property team’s attention. When the score changes by several points between reporting periods, the team may wonder whether equipment, operations, oc [...] - Environmental Sustainability
Sustainability in Facility Management: Challenges and Solutions Facility management is crucial in ensuring the effective and efficient operation of buildings and properties throughout the county. Environmental responsibility is seeing greater emphasis than ever before, and facilities [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Operations & Maintenance
Can Your Building Handle Its Next Energy Load? The electrical demands on commercial buildings are changing. Electric vehicle charging, heat pumps, electric water heating, building controls, battery storage, and other technologies are adding loads to buildings that we [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Tenant Experience
Ways to Save: ENERGY STAR Tenant Space The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began development of the ENERGY STAR Tenant Space program in 2018 and it was officially launched in 2020. It was created as a new way to assess and recognize environmentally [...] - Environmental Sustainability
ENERGY STAR at a Turning Point For more than 30 years, ENERGY STAR has provided a common standard for evaluating and improving energy efficiency across the U.S. commercial building sector. In commercial real estate, its best-known tool is ENERGY STAR [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Technology
EV Chargers in CRE: Charger Types and Support “Every couple of years, we’ve heard that this will be the year for electric vehicles and chargers to take off,” said Glenn Kurtz, Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives with Legacy Parking. “I think we ar [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Industrial Real Estate, Roofing
Industrial Real Estate and the Rise of On-Site Power When the Warehouse Starts Making Its Own Power
For most of modern industrial real estate, electricity has been a utility expense. A warehouse connects to the grid, pays for the power it consumes and relies on that conne [...] - Environmental Sustainability
Update on ENERGY STAR Transition from EPA to DOE On August 28, 2026, in accordance with the March 3, 2026, Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) finalized the 2026 ENERGY STAR Program Transition Pl [...] - Environmental Sustainability
Resource Management: Advancing Efficiency, Reducing Costs, and Long-Term Value Resource management in commercial real estate has become a key priority for building owners and operators as escalating utility costs, investor pressures, and evolving tenant demands reshape property operations. What was [...] - Environmental Sustainability
Winter Energy Efficiency: ASHRAE-Based Strategies for Commercial Building Performance As winter temperatures drop, commercial building owners and operators face rising energy costs and performance challenges. Heating demands, occupant comfort, and indoor air quality all converge to create a delicate balan [...] - Environmental Sustainability
Building Performance Standards Are Coming: How ENERGY STAR Keeps You Ahead The era of voluntary energy efficiency is ending. Across the United States, cities and states are implementing building performance standards that mandate emissions reductions with substantial financial penalties for non [...] - Design & Construction, Environmental Sustainability
The ENERGY STAR Playbook: Which Retrofits Move Your Score Retrofits aren't created equal. Some deliver quick wins with fast payback. Others require major capital but barely move the score. When you're working with limited budgets and competing priorities, choosing wrong [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Tenant Experience
Engaging Tenants as Sustainability Collaborators Sustainability in commercial real estate has moved past glossy brochures and LEED plaques. Today, it's about actual performance, and that performance depends on something many property owners have been slow to recognize: [...] - Environmental Sustainability
Carbon Footprint Benchmarking Tracking a building’s climate impact used to be something only large investors worried about. Today, it’s essential for everyone who owns or manages property. Smaller companies face unique challenges — they know su [...] - Environmental Sustainability
ENERGY STAR: A Proven Performance Driver In the ever-evolving commercial real estate industry, few programs have reshaped operations as profoundly as ENERGY STAR. Balancing tenant expectations, sustainability goals, and financial performance, ENERGY STAR has st [...] - Design & Construction, Environmental Sustainability
Northyards: Adaptive Reuse Creates Lasting Value and Sustainable Operations in Atlanta’s Westside Northyards stands as a remarkable example of adaptive reuse in Atlanta, where strategic redevelopment of historic properties has created modern, sustainable office and commercial spaces that serve today’s tenants and c [...] - Environmental Sustainability
Regenerative Buildings: Beyond Sustainability to Environmental Restoration Imagine structures designed not merely to lessen harm, but to genuinely restore nature. This idea - buildings that actively improve their surroundings - is gaining traction, shifting from classrooms into actual construct [...] - Environmental Sustainability
State of the ENERGY STAR Program While the ENERGY STAR program continues to deliver value to commercial real estate, its future now hangs in the balance amid political pressure and privatization proposals. For decades, ENERGY STAR quietly became th [...]
