Category: Small Commercial

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Earth Advantage Small Commercial is here

New Small Commercial

Colourless Green has been involved in some exciting developments during the late summer and fall of 2015. As of 1 September, Cedric received a certification by Earth Advantage as a commercial project steward. The Earth Advantage certification is appropriate for smaller commercial buildings (under 75,000 square feet and/or based on the complexity of the building) and is a prescriptive package.

What sets us apart from other project stewards is we’re not only looking at the building process, but the building as an asset. Given our core competencies in building monitoring, energy modeling, analytics, and reporting, what we would like to do is offer Earth Advantage Silver, Gold, or Platinum certification oversight as well as ongoing building commissioning, reporting, and analysis services. Outfitting your new building with building monitoring sensors will ensure that you get the value out of the building that you paid for. The last thing you want to do is be blamed for greenwashing. We give you the analytics, reports, and metrics to prove the performance of your green building.

It will also set the building apart from its peers in health, safety, comfort, and tenant retention. By continuously monitoring the building we can tell you if equipment is running as planned, what is behind tenant complaints about comfort, or any number of issues. Importantly, we also offer energy disclosure services with this package for those with jurisdictions requiring reporting.

Until the end of 2015, we are offering introductory rates to project teams to serve as a project steward. Contact us here to get the ball rolling.

We can talk about what building monitoring packages would be right for your building and for future tenants or owners as well.

Related: Energy Disclosure services

 

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Energy Disclosure Services

Energy Disclosure Regulations

In September, October, and November, Colourless Green is working with the City of Portland to understand the practical implication of the City’s new energy disclosure ruling. For small commercial buildings, one option is to outfit your buildings with environmental and energy sensors to automate the reporting process.  These would give you access to:

  • Diagnostics
  • Building health and energy reports
  • Automation of reporting
  • Benchmarking with other buildings
  • Tenant safety/turnover metrics such as
    • VOC reports
    • Humidity
    • Temperature/comfort

The small commercial market has historically been under the radar when it comes to these sorts of regulations. Let us help you through the transition.

Energy and reporting services

For existing buildings, we are equipped to assist you with the energy disclosure law. We care about energy, and we understand that it isn’t necessarily a building owner’s core competency. We can help ease the transition with administration, reporting, and understanding the ruling–we’re going to do it either way, so you can save yourself the trouble and have us represent your data to the City, the utilities, or whomever else you allow access. We’ll handle the headache and be the point of contact so you don’t have to deal with it.

We can also, on a schedule you determine, give you the essential details relevant to your operating budgets, as well as benchmarking versus other buildings in cities with disclosure laws so you understand what your competition is doing.

We also offer small commercial green building services. Learn about our Earth Advantage small commercial new building services here.