Making the Business Case for High-Performance Buildings
This course explains what commercial practitioners can do to take advantage of long- and short-term sustainability trends and best practices.
Class B and C Buildings
Class B and C buildings make up a large portion of buildings in the U.S., from doctor’s offices to grocery and retail stores in your community. Below is IMT’s collection of resources that demonstrate how you can work with Class B and C building owners and tenants to optimize your city’s energy performance.
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Understanding the Business of Real Estate: Information for the Successful Implementation of a Building Performance Policy
This document aims to enhance city personnel perspectives on how the real estate industry functions and foster more meaningful conversations with stakeholders.
Overcoming the Six Biggest Hurdles to Better Energy and Sustainability Performance in Leased Retail Spaces
The retail industry has endured years of bumps and bruises from store closures, shrinking capital, and operational budgets. Added pressures from investors, consumers, and watchdogs who call out bad actors on regulatory and environmental misdeeds are leading retail companies large and small to change the way they do business. Forward-thinking companies are navigating this turbulent … Continued
City Energy Project: Energy Efficiency Financing Tools for Private Buildings
This fact sheet provides an overview of the ways in which city officials can make available tools and mechanisms for financing efficiency in private sector buildings.
How Can Cities Help Class B and C Building Owners Optimize Their Energy Performance?
Research from Carnegie Mellon University reveals some of the biggest roadblocks preventing class B and C building owners from investing in energy efficiency. Here’s a look at the top three challenges and what cities should consider as they aim to reduce building emissions, revitalize infrastructure, and help owners take action. Class B and C buildings … Continued
Green Lease Leaders: Spurring Efficiency in Cleveland Businesses and City Buildings
In 2019, the City of Cleveland became the first city government to be recognized as a Green Lease Leader.
How IMT’s Small Business Energy Initiative Drives Small Biz Success with Energy Efficiency
Through the Small Business Energy Initiative, IMT collaborates with trusted local chambers of commerce and leading business organizations around the country to break down barriers and make it easier for small businesses to reap the benefits of energy efficiency and high-performing buildings.
Meet the Small Business Energy Changemakers
Small businesses spend more than $60 billion a year to power, heat, and cool their buildings. By tackling energy efficiency, every small business landlord and tenant stands to maximize operations while improving the bottom line and creating healthier, more comfortable spaces for employees and customers. However, lack of time, expertise, and access to capital make … Continued
How SBAM Uses Energy Efficiency to Lift Up Michigan’s Small Businesses
The Small Business Association of Michigan (SBAM) is using the power of partnerships with utilities to help its members across the state put energy efficiency to work. Here’s how the organization does it. U.S. small businesses spend more than $60 billion a year on utility costs for the spaces they rent or own. However, there … Continued
Small Business Energy Changemakers: Matt Kazinka
The Small Business Energy Initiative (SBEI) is led by the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) and the Greater Cleveland Partnership/Council of Smaller Enterprises (GCP/COSE). With support from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Initiative is partnering with local chambers of commerce and similar small business organizations from five regions across the country to arm them with … Continued