July 30, 2007—The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International Foundation recently announced that CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc., has adopted the BOMA Energy Efficiency Program (BEEP) to help reduce energy consumption at its managed properties through increased employee education and training. The adoption of BEEP is part of CBRE’s recently announced environmental stewardship initiative.
The award-winning BEEP program, which offers cutting-edge energy savings solutions through a series of seminars, was developed by the BOMA Foundation in partnership with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR program. BEEP teaches commercial real estate professionals how to reduce energy consumption and costs with proven no- and low-cost strategies for optimizing equipment, people, and practices.
Over the course of the next three years, CBRE intends to make the BEEP material broadly available throughout the CBRE system, and will seek to train more than 500 employees, including real estate managers overseeing all major office assets totaling more than 125 million square feet. CBRE will collaborate with the BOMA Foundation on the training platform.
According to the BOMA Foundation, the strategies taught in the BEEP courses can help reduce commercial real estate’s energy usage by as much as 30 percent, which is reportedly the equivalent of removing 120 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions from the air or 12 million cars from the road.
For more information visit BOMA International’s BEEP Web site.
