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| Hard time exposes the soft benefits of deep energy retrofits |
| By greenbiz.com- Laurie Guevara-Stone |
| Published: 06/11/2015 |
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Talk of building energy-efficiency retrofits usually focuses on commercial offices. But there’s another type of building—prisons—where the non-energy benefits of those retrofits really stand out in stark relief. True to their name, deep energy retrofits generate a suite of deep retrofit values that are quantifiable and go well beyond straightforward energy cost savings, such as rents, sales and lease-up rates, employee health and productivity and more. In office environments, the beyond-energy-cost value-add of deep retrofits is subtler, but prisons are a world of extreme contrasts where we can more plainly see the impact of deep retrofit value. Like energy-intensive building types such as healthcare facilities and food service establishments, prisons consume higher-than-average amounts of energy per square foot. Retail stores use an average 114 kBtu per square foot, the average office building uses 148 and your average prison uses about 170. And, of course, many prisons aren’t exactly designed with occupant comfort in mind. Read More. |
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