Briefings & Templates

High Performance Portfolio Framework

Quick overviews detailing the interactions between energy and commercial real estate, these briefs and templates will help you to digest the essential facts and take action.

Organized according to the High Performance Portfolio Framework, look below to find the information you require:

Assess

• Energy Management Checklist
• Carbon, Energy, and Your Building
• Green Building Rating Systems

Commit

• Sample Energy Management Policy (Template)
• Energy Efficiency: Myths & Misperceptions

Plan

• Organizational Approaches to Energy Management
• Scoping
• Sustainability & The Acquisitions Process

Implement

• Conducting a Night Walk of your Building
• Making the Most of Property Management Agreements
• Managing Engineering Performance
• Engineering Metrics Checklist
• Common Roadblocks to Earning the Energy Star
• Motivating & Rewarding Success
• Purchasing Guidelines
• Energy Tracking & Accounting
• Energy Transparency and Reporting
• Leasing & Energy: Allocations
• 10 Goals for Green Leasing
• Building Tune-Ups
• Enhanced Operations and Maintenance
• Rethinking Simple Payback Period
• Integrated Design
• Hiring the Right Team - Integrated Design Services
• Sample RFP for Integrated Design Services (Template)
• Commissioning

Capitalize

• Marketing a High-Performance Building
• Energy Efficiency and Appraisals
• Energy Issues in Underwriting Properties