Operations & Maintenance

  • Guidelines Energy Management outlines EPA Energy Star's Guidelines for Energy Management in commercial buildings.
  • GSA Seven Strategies recommends seven cost-effective strategies, applicable to every existing federal facility and workplace, that can save energy and increase end user satisfaction published by the General Services Administration.
  • Chapter 2: Benchmarking from Energy Star Building Upgrade Manual - discusses comparing the energy use of a building or group of buildings with other similar structures or how energy use varies from a baseline.
  • Chapter 5: Retrocommissioning from Energy Star Building Upgrade Manual - explains the process of ensuring that building systems are designed, installed, functionally tested, and capable of being operated and maintained according to the owner's operational needs.
  • Five Ideas to Save Money - is a fact sheet that outlines five easy tactics that building managers can undertake to reduce energy use in buildings.
  • Guidelines to Energy Management - is a comprehensive Energy Star guide for building managers that outlines the steps to take to reduce building or campus energy use.
  • Retro Commissioning - is a short case study on the steps and benefits of retrocommissioning, a reassessment of building system calibration and performance.