NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio made national headlines this week when he announced that the largest city in the U.S. will ban glass facades in new construction. “We are going to ban the classic glass and steel skyscrapers, which are incredibly inefficient,” DeBlasio said on MSNBC’s Morning J
PACE is a program legislated at the state and municipal level that allows private investments to fund energy loans for improvements to buildings through a tax assessment lasting 20 to 25 years. Currently, 31 states offer PACE programs, with Illinois joining most recently. Under Illino
Energy efficiency upgrades for buildings have the potential to eliminate over $1.2 trillion in wasted energy costs by 2020 for an upfront investment of $520 billion, according to McKinsey & Company’s report Unlocking Energy Efficiency in the US. Yet, even with the knowledge of the
Building owners may make the final decision on improvements for their properties – yet it’s the tenants who have to literally and figuratively pay the price and deal with the consequences on a daily basis. Windows are the weakest link of a building, in terms of heat flow and air infil
The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics states that two objects in thermal equilibrium with a third system are also in thermal equilibrium with one another. This law is the basis of temperature – temperature flows from hot to cold; therefore, when systems are in thermal equilibrium, they are
If all existing commercial building windows were replaced with triple pane windows, it would save around 1% of the total energy usage in the US, according to 2012 estimates from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Put into perspective, that is roughly equivalent to how muc
“Energy efficiency offers a vast, low-cost energy resource for the US economy – but only if the nation can craft a comprehensive and innovative approach to unlock it…If executed at scale, a holistic approach would yield gross energy savings worth more than $1.2 trillion, well above th
Solar window film is an adhesive film applied to the exterior of glass windows in an attempt to upgrade a building’s energy performance by controlling the amount of solar energy from the sun from entering the building. While solar film has the benefits of being affordable and quick to
As concerns over energy consumption and climate change grow, policy makers continue to be called upon to make their buildings more green, such as through more environmentally friendly energy technologies and measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In January of 2014, mayors from
Improving your commercial building’s energy performance has many potential financial benefits. It can not only reduce your monthly energy costs and allow you the opportunity to earn tax incentives and other government rebates, but also greatly increase your profit when selling by incr