
Buildings

Weathering Winter
For low-income Americans, weatherization and residential energy efficiency provides real relief

How Real Estate Energy Managers Can Leverage Big Data Right Now
Big Data remains a fairly nebulous concept for many real estate professionals, including those who stand to gain tremendously from it right now: real estate energy managers.

Show Me The Money: Boosting Investor Confidence Through Better Building Energy Efficiency Modeling
Deploying private capital for energy efficiency retrofits "could" be transformational, "but" investors lack the confidence in energy savings estimates against which lenders would underwrite loans. How do we boost that confidence?

Revisiting Building Portfolio Energy Strategy
Commercial buildings consume 46 percent of all building energy in the United States. Most of those buildings—potentially as many as 70–80 percent—are owned as part of a larger portfolio of buildings and are managed by a central entity.

This Old House
RMI Senior Consultant Elaine Gallagher Adams weatherized her 1,800-square-foot 100-year-old house, reducing annual energy costs significantly. Here's how she did it.