SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS
Asset Classes
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Offices
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Enclosed Shopping Centres
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Open Air Retail
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Light Industrial
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Multi-Unit Residential Buildings
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Health Care Facilities
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Universal
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Focus Area
Topic
Question #
Question
Has the owner or landlord shared an Energy and Carbon Management Communication Plan with the building tenants?
Applicability
Applicable to Light Industrial and Open-Air Retail buildings
Answer
Description
Increasing building tenant and occupant awareness and engagement in environmental and sustainable practices can have a significant positive or negative impact on the performance of the building.
Improving the environmental performance of the building can Suggested Lead to many positive outcomes for building management, staff and tenants, including but not limited to lower operational costs, lower utility bills, improved indoor air quality, improved management-tenant relationships, etc.
Requirements
- Develop an Energy and Carbon Management Communication Plan that covers the following:
- The building management team’s efforts to manage energy and carbon
- Energy and carbon assessment, tips for operations and maintenance optimisation, lighting and HVAC efficiency and the value of sub-metering
- Copies of communication with the building’s tenants where the content of the building Energy and Carbon communication plan was shared, dated within the past 12 months.
- Demonstrate that communication was distributed to at least half of the number of tenant organizations occupying the building or to a group that leases at least half of the total building area
- Develop an Energy and Carbon Management Communication Plan that covers the following:
Documentation
- Building-specific Energy and Carbon Management Communication Plan
- Proof of communication with representative group of building tenants, covering energy and carbon assessment, tips for operations and maintenance optimisation, lighting and HVAC efficiency and the value of sub-metering
Adapted BB3 Question
Best Practice 2 – Has an ASHRAE Level 1 Energy Assessment been conducted in the last five (5) years? and Best Practice 16 – Is an Occupant Environmental Communication Program in place at the building?
Suggested Lead
In house: Facility Maintenance in conjunction with Building Manager/Policy Makers
References
Crosswalk
Other Notes
Scoring
Baseline