April 30, 2010—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced support on April 21 for energy-saving commercial building projects as part of an ongoing effort to improve the energy efficiency of buildings in the United States. The goal of this Commercial Building Partnerships (CBP) initiative is to increase the energy efficiency of selected new and existing buildings.
With money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, DOE’s national laboratories will select and fund technical experts to provide technical guidance to commercial building owners and operators.
The CBP initiative will foster collaborative relationships among the owners and operators of commercial buildings, researchers from DOE national laboratories, and private-sector technical experts. Building owners will receive technical expertise on how to design, build and maintain low-energy buildings that can reduce energy use and lower energy bills across their building portfolios.
These collaborations will help to move energy-saving strategies into the marketplace quickly and cost-effectively, says DOE. Each of the CBP building projects will be documented in publicly available case studies that will provide detailed energy use data and best practices to other building operators across the country.
Online applications to the Call for Energy Efficient Commercial Building Projects as well as completed proposals for the Request for Proposals from Commercial Building Technical Experts are due by May 10, 2010.
