Andrew Burr

Former Director of Development

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DATA Benchmarking Fact Sheet

Leading utilities are helping building owners, property managers, businesses and governments benchmark the energy performance of their buildings. Utilities benefit by supporting benchmarking in many ways including: improving customer, helping drive peak demand reductions, enabling utility programs to achieve greater energy efficiency results per dollar,  and increasing the cost-effectiveness of portfolios. The National Association of … Continued

Commercial Building Energy Rating and Disclosure Policies

Transparent energy ratings can help drive investment in energy efficiency by enabling tenants, investors, and lenders to compare building energy performance, creating demand for efficient buildings that have lower utility bills and/or operating costs. This fact sheet gives an introduction to commercial building energy rating and disclosure policies, now in effect in six U.S. cities … Continued

Utility Data Sensitivity

This graphic presents the relative sensitivity of energy data from utility meters, from the most private and sensitive (real-time, household-level) to the least sensitive (monthly, nonresidential, and aggregated).

Energy Transparency in the Multifamily Housing Sector: Executive Summary

Mirroring recent trends in other real estate sectors, the multifamily housing sector is subject to an increasing number of rules and regulations related to energy-performance benchmarking and disclosure. The goal of these new rules is to enable transparent building energy-performance information to drive energy efficiency improvements in multifamily housing that lower energy bills for residents; … Continued

Energy Transparency in the Multifamily Housing Sector

Mirroring recent trends in other real estate sectors, the multifamily housing sector is subject to an increasing number of rules and regulations related to energy-performance benchmarking and disclosure. The goal of these new rules is to enable transparent building energy-performance information to drive energy efficiency improvements in multifamily housing that lower energy bills for residents; … Continued

Energy Disclosure & the New Frontier for American Jobs

This report shows how a new kind of energy policy is creating skilled, export-proof jobs in cities across the United States. Under this type of policy, called building energy rating and disclosure, owners of large buildings track exactly how much energy their properties use. Armed with this information, they can make changes that reduce their … Continued

Analysis of Job Creation and Energy Cost Savings From Building Energy Rating and Disclosure Policy

Major U.S. cities and states, including New York City, San Francisco, the District of Columbia, and California, now require building owners and operators to comparatively rate the energy performance of their buildings and disclose building energy-performance indicators to the marketplace. Existing policies are projected to impact more than 4 billion square feet of floor space … Continued

U.S. Energy Rating and Disclosure Policy Would Yield 59,000 Net New Jobs in 2020

An analysis conducted by the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) and the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) found that a rating and disclosure policy for commercial and multifamily residential buildings applied nationally would result in significant job growth, consumer energy savings and increased private investment in energy efficiency improvements. The analysis found that such a … Continued