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Historic Building Performs Equal to or Better Than New Buildings
The Byron Rogers building, located in downtown Denver and owned by the U.S. General Services Administration, is a model of how deep energy retrofits can create more efficient, financially valuable, and more productive workspaces.
Residential Energy+: Capturing the Primetime Opportunity for Energy- performance Improvements In U.S. Homes
The market opportunity for residential energy upgrades—the combination of measures to improve energy performance in homes—is substantial, amounting to roughly $150 billion in the…
In an Age of Cheap Solar Does Efficiency Still Matter?
Solar may be more glamorous, but efficiency, the old workhorse of green buildings, remains a winner, just not in all cases.
Five Lessons the Buildings Industry Can Learn From the Wearable Tracker Craze
Just as the wearable tracker craze grows, so does the development of smart buildings. If we use data the right way we can have buildings that cut energy costs and reduce their carbon footprint.
Hard Time Exposes the Soft Benefits of Deep Energy Retrofits
Talk of building energy-efficiency retrofits usually focuses on commercial offices. But there’s another type of building—prisons—where the non-energy benefits of those retrofits really stand out in stark relief.