Commercial + Industrial

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.

This report is the third Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) on the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) Industrial Efficiency Alliance (IEA). MPER#1 presented an overview of the Initiative, its background, strategy, and evaluation methodology.

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…

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…

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.…

This second Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER #2) documents the results of an ongoing evaluation to assess the activities and accomplishments of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA) BetterBricks Hospitals and Healthcare Initiative (Hospitals Initiative), which is currently funded through 2008. BetterBricks is the umbrella initiative that covers all of NEEA’s commercial activities. The evaluation…

This report is the second Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) Industrial Efficiency Alliance (IEA). MPER#1 presented an overview of the Initiative, its background, strategy, and evaluation methodology.