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ENERGY STAR at Scale: Portfolio Strategy for Multiple Buildings Managing energy performance for one building is straightforward. Managing it across dozens or hundreds of properties requires deliberate strategy. REITs, institutional investors, and large property owners need systematic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Using AI for Sustainability Businesses are being reshaped by artificial intelligence, notably through gains in sustainable practices. It’s assisting them - whether lowering building energy use, streamlining deliveries, or forecasting ecological h [...]
Top 10 Articles of 2024 CRE Insight Journal is an essential resource for real estate professionals, with a growing catalog of articles, videos, webinars, publications, and other resources. And with CRE Insight 365, members gain access to CRE In [...]
ENERGY STAR NextGen™ Certification Launched The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the launch of ENERGY STAR NextGen, a new level of certification for U.S. commercial and multifamily buildings that available to the nation's most energy-efficient, l [...]
11 On-Demand Sustainability Resources CRE Insight Journal’s annual ENERGY STAR® Month wrapped up recently. Here’s a quick look at the 11 on-demand resources released this year:Behind the Curtain: Increased Tenant Transparency – While energy perfor [...]
Sustainability in the Commercial Real Estate World In the winter of 2020, I completed two brief videos for CRE Insight Journal relating to sustainability. The impact your company might have on the Triple Bottom Line of Sustainability, articulated beautifully by the Unite [...]
Environmental Sustainability Case Studies Commercial real estate professionals often find inspiration from other industry professionals and the projects they implement to design, construct, manage, and operate properties. If you’re looking for some inspiration [...]
Ways to Save: Resources Sustainability and efficiency are major drivers in commercial real estate. Tenants look towards greener buildings and ask owners how they are impacting the environment. Owners look towards managers and operators on how t [...]
EV Chargers in CRE: Cost and Installation There were only 506 public EV chargers nationwide in 2010. The number of EV chargers has grown substantially to over 175,000 chargers in 2024. With the growth in electric vehicles, the need to provide charging infrastruc [...]
Technology and Sustainability Technological innovations have made it possible to advance sustainability in building operations through features such as systems monitoring and energy performance tracking, but the term technology has always been a bit [...]
Strategies for Property Managers to Promote ENERGY STAR Tenant Space ENERGY STAR Tenant Space is designation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for commercial spaces that meet specific energy efficiency performance criteria. It focuses on leased spaces, encouraging tenants [...]
ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager Update The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is rolling out optional Multi-Factor Authentication for all Portfolio Manager® users on Oct. 15, 2024.What You Need to KnowMulti-Factor Authentication (MFA) [...]