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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 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 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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Evaluation of the Industrial Efficiency Alliance (IEA) Report #4
This is the fourth Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) on the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) Industrial Efficiency Alliance (IEA). The conclusions and recommendations presented in this report are based on evaluation data collected from site visits, interviews with industrial end users, market partners, and training participants.
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Codes Market Progress Evaluation Report #2
Since 1997, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) has supported energy code activities in the Northwest states through the Codes and Standards Support Project, principally by funding staff positions or organizations responsible for code adoption and education. This second Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER #2) documents the progress made toward key objectives of NEEA’s Codes…
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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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Residential New Construction (Single and Multi-Family) Billing Analysis
One of the objectives of the 2006 Residential New Construction Characteristics and Practices Study was to characterize the overall energy usage of these buildings. This short report discusses the methodology used to collect and analyze the data to estimate annual energy usage. Billing data reflected in this report represents data captured over a 16-month period…
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Evaluation of the EnergyIdeas Clearinghouse No. 6
From the list of “quantifiable” progress indicators (see section 4.2 for the complete list), the evaluation determined that EnergyIdeas has met or exceeded eleven (11) progress indicators, as listed below.
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Evaluation of the Local Government Associations (LGA) Support Project Report 5
The Local Government Association (LGA) Project offers support for the local government associations in NEEA’s four-state service territory by providing information on energy efficiency to city, town, and county officials. The LGAs also encourage communities to adopt energy-efficiency policies such as codes or efficient building practices as well as support the market transformation interests of…