Basics for Greening Your Property

This is from the Green Boot Camp (presented by BB&T Insurance Services) that I attended.

It is an excerpt from the article "Ways to enhance energy efficiency and reduce your resource consumption" by Danny Murtagh of Boston Properties.

Basics for Greening Your Property

• Benchmark your building on the EPA Energy Star website.
• Preventative maintenance to improve operating efficiencies.
• Retrofit lighting to T8 or T5 technology.
• Replace incandescent lamps with screw-in fluorescent lamps.
• Consider other types of light bulbs and technology.
• Install occupancy sensors in the building.
• Consider the use of solar window film,
• Install variable speed drives on equipment.
• Install a lighting control system.
• Install a photocell operations on exterior lighting and get rid of the time clock.
• Start replacing older toilets and urinals with new low-flow technology.
• Replace your faucet aerators with 0.5 GPM type aerators.
• Retro-commissioning, especially the HVAC system.
• Be Observant.

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