REPORT

Multifamily Passive House: Connecting Performance to Financing

The Building Energy Exchange, in collaboration with Bright Power, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (NYC HPD), The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC), and Steven Winter Associates (SWA) released a report and playbook that analyzes energy use, emissions, and operational cost data from six New York City multifamily Passive House buildings. Different from other resources, this playbook compares that data to data from peer buildings built to code.
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Turning Data Into Action

The Building Energy Exchange, in collaboration with Bright Power and Sustainable Energy Partnerships, has published a report called Turning Data Into Action. We analyzed nearly 16,000 datasets from Local Law […]
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EnergyScoreCards Grading Model

Energy benchmarking allows building owners and managers to quantify how much energy their buildings consume and how much they are spending on utilities to find areas of potential savings. This […]
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Underwriting Efficiency

A mortgage lender’s handbook for realizing energy and water efficiency opportunities in multifamily housing. This handbook provides professionals involved in the origination, underwriting, closing, and servicing of multifamily mortgages the […]
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Retrofitting Affordability

New York City’s multifamily buildings are a diverse collection of properties that will play a pivotal role in meeting our climate change and affordability challenges. This report analyzes newly available […]
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Resilience for Free

How Solar+Storage Could Protect Multifamily Affordable Housing from Power Outages at Little or No Net Cost This report, Resilience for Free, shows that solar+storage systems can reduce costs and increase […]
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EnergyScoreCards Minnesota

EnergyScoreCards Minnesota provides one of the largest demonstrations of the feasibility and impact of multifamily benchmarking to date, with detailed documentation on methods, results, and lessons learned. The program was […]
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Energy and Water Savings in Multifamily Retrofits

Energy and water consumption represent some of the largest operating costs in multifamily properties, estimated at $22 billion per year in the U.S. The total expenditures for both energy and […]
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Investigation of a Simplified Method for Detecting Rogue Bypass in Buildings with CHP and Solar Thermal Preheat Systems

This study focuses on testing a simple method to detect a phenomenon called rogue bypass that affects numerous buildings with a hot water recirculation loop and has a negative impact […]
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