Buildings
Home Is Where the Energy-Efficient Heart Is
Finance decision makers should think about real estate more often, because a company’s real estate footprint affects that company greatly, often in ways of which people are not aware.
Google Hangout Video: Buildings, Climate, and Our Energy Future
Watch David Allen, executive vice president of McKinstry and RMI Trustee, as well as RMI principal Victor Olgyay and manager Coreina Chan discuss buildings and energy efficiency.
Creating Better Buildings
Achieving deeper levels of energy savings will require a scaling up of investment in energy efficiency. RMI’s new practice guide on how to calculate and present value from deep energy retrofits can help drive that investment.
Reaching the Building Efficiency Tipping Point
Our Scaling Building Efficiency Program is targeting four of the largest, most influential segments of the buildings market—major corporations, the General Services Administration, the Department of Defense, and activist cities—for deep and portfolio-wide retrofits.
Nest Metering
Late last year I noticed that our thermostat seemed to be on the fritz. It routinely ignored the temperature schedule we programmed. Meanwhile, it wasn’t detecting the temperature of the house accurately. Both of these things caused us to use more energy than we needed and made our home less comfortable to live in.