With aging infrastructure, rising energy costs and reduced budgets, facility managers and their institutions must focus more on energy efficiency to reduce both energy and operational costs. This paper examines the issues facing higher education to reduce energy costs, improve staff efficiency and meet their sustainability goals.
Increasingly, commercial real estate tenants are making commitments to sustainability with regard to the buildings they occupy. This paper examines the issues in commercial real estate and shows how monitoring based commissioning can help building go green in a cost effective manner to meet new regulation, cut operating expenses and improve the maintenance efficiency.