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Sustainability Tools and Resources - The Role of the Facility Manager in Sustainability Benchmarking: Metering, Monitoring and Managing Energy, Carbon and Water This documentexplores the role of the facility professional in measuring, monitoring, and reporting energy, water, and carbon footprint, and how to fit these measurements and reporting systems into the global framework that aligns with an organization's corporate social responsibility and reporting requirements. It was presented to IFMA members in webinar format on September 27, 2011. Don't forget, you will need to log in to the IFMA Community website before you can access this file.
Related resources:
- Sustainability How-to Guide - Water
- Sustainability How-to Guide - Energy Star
- Sustainability How-to Guide - No Cost/Low Cost Energy Savings
- FMJ articles - search by keyword - Finding comparative building data just got easier. IFMA has released an online survey management system entitled BEX. BEX helps you participate in IFMA surveys and participants have free and unlimited access to specific survey benchmarking data. Once enough data is collected to build a report, you can: Access survey data to compare hundreds of building reports to your facility's data, filter benchmark data specific to your needs-sort by industry, facility type, geographic region, facility size and more.
- The EPA has launched a Greener Products web portal. This portal is portal is designed to help the user navigate the increasingly important and complex world of greener products. It allows users to search for EPA programs related to greener products based on the type of user and their specific product interests. It also links to additional greener products information from EPA and other sources.
- The Carbon Disclosure Project has published the 2011 edition of their annual Global 5001 report, which examines carbon reduction activities at the world's largest public corporations.
- The U.S. Department of Energy has overhauled its website to make it easier to find localized information specific to cities, counties and states on tax credits, rebates, energy saving tips and grants. It has also adopted ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2007, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, as the new federal energy standard.
- Best Global Green Brands report has been released by Interbrand. This report combines public perception of environmental sustainability with a demonstration of that performance based on publicly available information and data.
- Do you have questions about IFMA's Energy Star Challenge? Find the answers here.
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