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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]