A comprehensive new energy reduction program for office buildings makes the case that cutting emissions and making money aren’t mutually exclusive. The Urban Land Institute’s Tenant Energy Optimization Program, introduced at the group’s fall meeting in Dallas yesterday, offers a blueprint for drastically cutting energy usage by commercial tenants, and has the support of some of New York City’s biggest landlords and businesses, as well as the National Resource Defense Council, which helped launch the initiative.
“The greatest value added to the client is that they literally save money,” says Tamela Johnson, director of project management at Gardiner & Theobald, a New York-based global construction consultancy. “In addition, they’re saving energy for out planet. Who doesn’t want to do that?”