Tenant Operations

Energy Operations and Maintenance Best Practices Guide

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High-performing buildings offer building owners and managers lower operating costs, potentially higher commercial tenant rents, and a higher resale value than traditional buildings. Additionally, in Washington, DC and in a growing number of other localities, buildings are required to meet energy performance targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Energy efficiency is a central component of […]

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Green Leasing in DC

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Washington, DC’s leadership has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2032. To reach this goal, the District requires that building owners report energy and water consumption annually through a benchmarking program. It also requires large buildings to meet energy efficiency standards as part of the Building Energy Performance Standards law. The Building Innovation

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Making Efficiency Work for You: A Guide for Empowering Landlords & Tenants to Collaborate on Saving Energy & Resources

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Commercial buildings used nearly 20 percent of total energy in the United States—more than half of which is consumed by small and medium buildings under 100,000 square feet, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. For small businesses that rent space in commercial buildings, energy is a top cost, often ranking behind only labor and

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Green Leasing Info Sheet

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Green leasing (also known as energy-aligned, high-performance, or energy-efficient leasing) aligns the financial and environmental goals of landlords and tenants to work together to save money, conserve resources, and ensure the efficient operation of buildings. This resource, created by the Institute for Market Transformation, is an information sheet that outlines the barriers, eligibility requirements and

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Overcoming Seven Key Landlord-Tenant Hurdles to Make Ambitious Carbon Reductions a Reality

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New York City’s Local Law 97 (LL97) is one of the most ambitious U.S. carbon reduction policies for buildings and one of the first laws in the country to require significant whole-building reductions of carbon emissions. Despite this ambitious policy, the reality is that tenants control up to 70% of energy use in buildings. Therefore, achieving New

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The Tower Companies Leverage Green Leases to Reduce Energy and Water Use

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The Tower Companies (Tower) owns and manages over 3 million square feet of commercial and residential building space in the Washington D.C. area. Like most landlords, Tower does not have control over energy and water usage in tenant office spaces. However, they raise the bar on lighting and water efficiency through lease language that requires

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LBA Realty Leverages Sustainability-as-a-Service Program to Engage Tenants

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LBA Realty is a full-service real estate investment and management company whose portfolio covers 90 million square feet of office and industrial properties across the United States.  As a part of their Sustainability Strategy, LBA Realty developed a Sustainability-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering for its tenants. This service offers a menu of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

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Spurring Efficiency in Cleveland Businesses and City Buildings

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With a green, high-performance lease, landlords and tenants can better work together to save billions of dollars and lock in smarter, more efficient operation of buildings. Since its inception in 2014, IMT and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Better Buildings Alliance’ Green Lease Leaders recognition program has grown to include firms that represent more than 2 billion square

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How Industrial Building Owners Use the Lease to Optimize Sustainable Business Practices

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With a green, high-performance lease, landlords and tenants can better work together to save billions of dollars and lock in more efficient, sustainable, and smarter building operations. Since its inception in 2014, IMT and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Better Buildings Alliance‘ Green Lease Leaders recognition program has grown to include firms that represent more than 2 billion

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Using the Lease to Create More Sustainable Coworking Spaces

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In 2019, coworking spaces dominated leasing activity and encompassed more than 521 million square feet of commercial space globally. For coworking operators to remain competitive in this sector, they must be responsive to corporate standards, and perhaps even broader appeal is needed to captivate the thousands of smaller businesses and professionals who are able to

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