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Lessons Learned from a Returning Green Lease Leader and a New Green Lease Leader

Where do you start with green leasing and how do you ensure that your leases continue to be an impactful tool over time? In this case study, we hear from Lori Hipwell about landlord Pure Industrial’s lessons learned as a new 2023 Green Lease Leader and from Ame Igharo about Ulta Beauty’s continued green leasing […]

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Energy Operations and Maintenance Best Practices Guide

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

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

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

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

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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