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Strategic Energy Management

Every effective energy-efficient building starts with a plan and leads to reduced energy costs. Strategic Energy Management (SEM) is the map to creating sustainable energy-saving practices that identify where energy waste is occurring and how to improve energy consumption and support building operations.

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Strategic Energy Management: Industrial Toolbox Talk Cards
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    • Building Operations,
    • Building Renewal

Strategic Energy Management: Industrial Toolbox Talk Cards

Industrial SEMHub Talk Cards make it easier than ever to stimulate energy efficiency conversation and learning among staff. Outlining a variety of SEM tools, approaches and methods, the SEMHub Talk Cards can be printed or easily viewed on display boards, smart phones and tablets. These cards will help you increase participation and reinforce energy efficiency practices for key industrial systems in your facility with refreshed photos, graphics and updated content including dust collection/fans, compressed air dryers, and sample calculations.

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Energy Management Assessment (EMA) Tool
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    • Building Operations,
    • Benchmarking

Energy Management Assessment (EMA) Tool

The Energy Management Assessment (EMA) Tool offers a strategic and confidential analysis of your organization’s current energy management business practices and specific areas of opportunity. The EMA Assessment and other SEM Hub resources can then help you develop or improve your Strategic Energy Management (SEM) practices for your organization.

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Benefits of Strategic Energy Management

Given the frenzy of the real estate market - deals underway, shifting competitive pressures, and the need to place capital - why focus on energy management? What returns, what rewards will a high performance portfolio provide?
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KRMC: Simple and Strategic Building Operation Improvements Result in Big Energy Savings

Kalispell Regional Medical Center (KRMC), in Kalispell, Montana, is a community hospital and a regional referral center offering the most advanced health services and medical technology in the area.
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Guide to Healthcare Energy Management

The Tools and Materials listed in this Guide support actions associated with developing and implementing Strategic Energy Management (SEM) at healthcare facilities. SEM is a holistic, organization-wide approach to best practices in energy management. Individual tools listed here can also be useful to utility staff, design and construction professionals, and hospital facility staff where SEM approaches are not in place.
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Best Practice O&M

Creating a best-practice operation-and-maintenance (O&M) program increases the efficiency of facility staff, improves building operational practices, and reduces utility costs.
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Quick Jumps

  • Building Operations

    When you can learn to operate your building more efficiently through energy-efficient maintenance practices and equipment troubleshooting, you’ll lower costs, improve comfort and further differentiate yourself in the market.

  • Benchmarking

    Before you can improve your energy efficiency, you have to understand how your building is using energy. Setting benchmarks will help establish an energy upgrade strategy to reduce energy consumption, lower utility costs, and improve tenant comfort.

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