Guest post by Larry Simpson. The real estate footprint boundaries of large companies and real estate owners have expanded, subsequently the challenge to measure, manage, report and reduce energy and carbon data efficiently and accurately to support portfolio-wide sustainability strategies have increased.

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Real estate and facility assets consume more than 70 percent of electricity. According to the Crossing the Sustainability Chasm report recently published by TRIRIGA, an IBM company, 91 percent of organizations who achieve their sustainability goals invest in improving facility energy efficiency. The benefits are substantial since energy efficiency retrofits can reduce energy use by [...]

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A new report from TRIRIGA finds that although the majority of the world’s largest corporations have set environmental and energy reduction goals, two-thirds failed to achieve them. TRIRIGA evaluated survey data from 130 sustainability-focused executives and professionals from large corporations as well as government agencies, and found three clear tactics used by ‘Achievers’ – a [...]

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LAS VEGAS, NV — March 15, 2011 -While most large organizations measure energy and environmental performance, only one-third of organizations have successfully “crossed the sustainability chasm” to achieve their sustainability objectives, according to a new report titled “Crossing the Sustainability Chasm: Strategies and Tactics to Achieve Sustainability Goals”1 by TRIRIGA and in collaboration with Gartner, [...]

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Benchmarking is essential to create a real estate strategy that ultimately can drive sustainability excellence…to get where you want to go, you have to know where you are starting from. The primary purpose of benchmarking corporate real estate data is to discover areas of under-performance (both relative to relative to leased and owned assets within [...]

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What: George Bartley of Building Sustainability Limited and PeopleCube’s Peter Tarca will present “The Business Advantages of the Green Intelligent Building.” This webinar will discuss the driving factors behind energy management initiatives and proven strategies for monitoring and measuring energy consumption. It will also explain how to manage actual space utilization to lower carbon emissions, [...]

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BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS, February 7, 2011 –- The Planon Group, a leading global provider of facilities management and real estate software, announced today the availability of PlanonConnect’s direct integration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR® energy performance rating system.

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A carbon footprint is defined as: The total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide.  (CO2). Your carbon footprint is the sum of all emissions of CO2 (carbon dioxide), which are induced by your activities in a given time frame. 1 Every [...]

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