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Baseline Characteristics of the 2002-2004 Nonresidential Sector: Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington
This report describes the results of a two-year, Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) study intended to improve understanding of the new commercial building stock in the Pacific Northwest region. The study provides a new regional baseline for current practices in commercial buildings constructed between 2002 and 2004 and compares those practices with previous baseline and…
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BetterBricks Hospitals and Healthcare Initiative Market Progress Evaluation Report #3
This third Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER #3) documents the progress of the BetterBricks Hospitals & Healthcare Initiative (formerly the High Performance Hospitals Program) between October 2006 and November 2007. The Hospitals & Healthcare Initiative is targeted to hospital and hospital systems that have their headquarters in the region served by the Northwest Energy Efficiency…
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BetterBricks Energy Savings Protocol Progress Report
This is the first report on the development of savings estimates for NEEA’s BetterBricks Initiative. While planning estimates were developed as part of the BetterBricks Boardapproval process, this project represents the first attempt to use actual Initiative data as the source for savings estimates that are directly linked to Initiative activities.
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BetterBricks Design and Construction Initiative – Market Progress Evaluation Report #2
In 2007, the BetterBricks Design and Construction (D&C) initiative made significant advances in promoting changes in practice that lead to low-energy, integrated design solutions. The network of five integrated design labs (IDLs) and the BetterBricks Business Advisor assisted architecture firms throughout the region on dozens of projects in the target markets, began promoting a uniform…
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BetterBricks Building Operations Initiative Market Progress Evaluation Report #2
This second Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER #2) documents the progress of the BetterBricks Building Operations Initiative between January and December 2007. The Building Operations Initiative focuses on improving regional building performance by facilitating market adoption of improved operations and maintenance strategies by market actors on both the demand and supply sides of the market.…
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Analysis of window energy savings in commercial buildings in the Pacific Northwest
In September 2002, NEEA launched the Commercial Windows Initiative (CWI) with the goal of increasing sales of already efficient commercial window products and encouraging the design, manufacture and sale of new, more efficient products. CWI had an explicit goal of increasing market share to 50% from an assumed baseline of 12% for the specific market…
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BetterBricks Office Real Estate Initiative Market Progress Evaluation Report #1
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA) Office Real Estate Initiative (ORE Initiative) “advocates for changes to energy-related business practices” among real estate firms that own and manage office buildings in the Pacific Northwest, with the goal of having these firms develop a “high-performance portfolio” of buildings.
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BetterBricks Design and Construction Initiative – Market Progress Evaluation Report #1
The first evaluation of the Design & Construction component of NEEA’s BetterBricks initiative finds that early progress is being made toward the goal of promoting high performance buildings through the practice of integrated design. Accomplishments in 2006 include signing agreements to work intensively with three prominent architecture firms to design buildings that perform at least…
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Market Progress Evaluation Report #1 – BetterBricks Building Operations Initiative
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s BetterBricks Building Operations Initiative was slated to begin in January 2006. Personnel changes delayed the start of development activities for several months. The initiative has benefited from a foundation established through its predecessor, the pilot Building Performance Services (BPS) initiative, particularly with respect to the relationships with key service providers…
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BetterBricks Grocery Initiative Market Progress Evaluation Report #2
The BetterBricks Grocery Initiative (Grocery Initiative) was approved by the NEEA Board of Directors in July 2005; it works directly with regional grocery wholesalers and larger chain operators (greater than five and less than 35 locations) to change energy-related business practices. Efforts with national chains are also planned, but have not yet been fully identified.…
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