Posted: January 24, 2014
Source: Rocky Mountain Institute
Download: How to Calculate and Present Deep Retrofit Value: A Guide for Owner-Occupants
Highly energy-efficient buildings offer more than just a low utility bill. They also often promise gains in employee productivity, better retention, improved occupant health, lower maintenance costs, increased occupancy, and higher lease-up and sales rates, among others.
Yet real estate professionals often ignore many of these additional values—they tend to focus on energy cost savings alone to justify investment in new green buildings or deep energy retrofits of existing buildings. Meanwhile, building occupants like you and me often suffer in poorly lit, stuffy, and generally inadequate offices, supermarkets, stores, classrooms, and numerous other spaces where we collectively spend the majority of our time outside the home. But no longer.
RMI has released a new guide to provide practical guidance to enable company leaders and real estate professionals to incorporate all the benefits of deep energy savings in their decision making. The first version of this guide, How to Calculate and Present Deep Retrofit Value: A Guide for Owner-Occupants, presents RMI’s Deep Retrofit Value Model and details how owner-occupants (responsible for roughly half of U.S commercial buildings) can calculate property-specific deep retrofit value.
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