Importance of Maintaining a Submeter

June 04, 2024

Property owners in the past could only estimate energy usage or water consumption and pass along the costs to the tenant. The practice of estimation caused a lot of conflict with tenants and submetering became the solution to this problem, giving tenants

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What is Energy Benchmarking? And How Does it Help?

May 15, 2024

Benchmarking is the process of collecting data as a measure with the aim to compare current efforts and results. A benchmark is the ‘best performance’ achieved and ‘benchmarking' is the process of ‘evaluating against best performance’. Knowledge gathered

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Can Old Buildings Be Green Too?

April 26, 2024

Surprisingly, many old buildings already have sustainable features. The oldest structures were built during a time when climate control technology didn’t exist, which means they were constructed with materials and features that effectively circulated air

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Three Low-Cost Green Building Retrofits

April 02, 2024

A high amount of carbon emissions come from multi-unit residential buildings. As two-thirds of existing buildings are expected to still be standing three decades from now, unless steps are taken today, the negative impact of carbon emissions will be felt

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