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 Emerging Best Practice:  Building Energy Retrofit Performance Evaluation & Guarantee

Technical Training Opportunity:     Earn .8 CEU / 8 PDHs

Who should attend:

• Energy Auditors, Energy Consultants & ESCO professionals
• Property Due Diligence Consultants & Property Managers
• Lenders & Insurance brokers who underwrite energy efficiency loans and insurance
• Government officials involved in energy efficiency programs such as PACE

You will learn how to:

• Resolve gaps in the energy audit process
• Create the building energy use equation
• Project energy savings from baseline building energy use
• Verify ECM performance

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The Efficiency Valuation Organization (EVO®) announces the release of its 2012 International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP®). 

This updated edition of the 2010 IPMVP Volume I (Concepts and Options for Determining Energy and Water Savings) continues to make the protocol more useful to a global audience by responding to comments from around the world. Highlights of changes in the 2010 edition include addition of new terms: “operational verification,” “owners project requirements for M&V,” “monitoring and targeting,” and a Catalonian section to the Spain section of Appendix C.
 
The 2012 IPMVP is now available for free download on EVO’s Web site at http://www.evo-world.org/index.php?option=com_form&form_id=75&Itemid=535.

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MCCARTER TO LEAD

EE RETROFIT FINANCING PANEL AT EBA MEETING

Presentation of Energy Retrofit Financing Options in the Commercial Real Estate Market

TRUMBULL, CT – JANUARY 20, 2012 – Sustainable Real Estate Solutions, Inc. (SRS), the industry leader in on-demand building energy performance assessment and proprietary benchmarking software, today announced CEO Brian J. McCarter will lead a panel presentation at the Environmental Bankers Association meeting in Santa Fe, NM on January 23, 2012.

The EBA meeting attendees will include leading commercial real estate professionals from the lender, insurer and consulting communities.  McCarter’s panel will provide a unique perspective on the alternatives available for energy retrofit financing for commercial property.  The panel will profile the Los Angeles Commercial Building Performance Partnership program as a bellwether case study of the emerging best practices in the technical and financial underwriting process to meet the needs of the stakeholders (owner, lender, insurer and consultant) seeking to profit from the energy savings opportunities available in this rapidly growing market.

“SRS, through its broad-base of clients encompassing energy auditors, energy service contractors (ESCOs), lenders, insurers, property owners and managers is at the forefront of this exciting new industry”, noted McCarter.  He added, “Sharing best practices with leading commercial property due diligence professionals assures the continuous evolution of our industry leading software platform, thereby insuring our clients maximize their energy-related opportunities.”

“SRS is proud to participate as both a speaker and sponsor of this EBA meeting that provides building stakeholders with insight to the menu of financing options and enabling tools now available to unlock the full-potential to monetize energy savings opportunities and achieve scale market adoption in the energy efficiency investment space”, said McCarter. 

About Sustainable Real Estate Solutions, Inc. (SRS)

SRS, an industry leader in on-demand building energy performance assessment and proprietary benchmarking software, delivers Sustainable Real Estate Manager^® an Internet-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) workflow platform enabling building stakeholders to assess, benchmark and optimize the energy and sustainability performance of their properties.  Its Peer Building Benchmarking^™ database contains over 120,000 buildings nationwide encompassing 15 property types comprising 3.3 billion square feet, over $7.8 billion in annual energy costs and $635 million in annual water/sewer costs and has reinvented commercial real estate’s energy efficiency benchmarking best practice.  For more information, visit www.SRMnetwork.com.

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Watch Video Sustainable Real Estate Manager^® Platform

The Sustainable Real Estate Manager^® SRM Monitoring & Optimization platform facilitates portfolio-wide prioritization of energy performance improvement opportunities. User applications include:

• Post retrofit measurement & verification (M&V)
• Portfolio screening & retrofit prioritization
• Internal & external property benchmarking
• Actual vs budget performance comparison

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 MCCARTER SLATED TO ADDRESS

MOBILIZE ENERGY EFFICIENCY CONFERENCE

Presentation of Emerging Best Practices in Energy Auditing and Enabling Software

TRUMBULL, CT – JANUARY 7, 2012 – Sustainable Real Estate Solutions, Inc. (SRS), the industry leader in on-demand building energy performance assessment and proprietary benchmarking software, today announced CEO Brian J. McCarter will address the Mobilize Energy Efficiency in America Conference in Boston, MA on January 9, 2012.

The Mobilize Energy Efficiency in America meeting attendees will include leading commercial real estate energy efficiency professionals from the owner, investor, lender, insurer and consulting communities. McCarter’s presentation will provide a unique perspective on the emerging best practices in the energy audit process necessary to meet the technical and financial underwriting needs of the primary stakeholders (owner, lender, insurer and consultant) seeking to profit from the energy savings opportunities available in this rapidly growing market.

“SRS, through its broad-base of clients encompassing energy auditors, energy service contractors (ESCOs), lenders, insurers, property owners and managers is at the forefront of this exciting new industry”, noted McCarter. He added, “Sharing best practices with leading energy efficiency professionals assures the continuous evolution of our industry leading software platform, thereby insuring our clients maximize their energy-related opportunities.”

“SRS is proud to participate as both a speaker and sponsor of this symposium style meeting that provides building stakeholders with insight to the enabling tools to unlock the full-potential to monetize energy savings opportunities and achieve scale market adoption in the energy efficiency investment space”, said McCarter. For more information about the Mobilize Energy Efficiency in America event, visit www.energi.com/mobilize.php.

About Sustainable Real Estate Solutions, Inc. (SRS)

SRS, an industry leader in on-demand building energy performance assessment and proprietary benchmarking software, delivers Sustainable Real Estate Manager® an Internet-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) workflow platform enabling building stakeholders to assess, benchmark and optimize the energy and sustainability performance of their properties. Its Peer Building Benchmarking™ database contains over 120,000 buildings nationwide encompassing 15 property types comprising 3.3 billion square feet, over $7.8 billion in annual energy costs and $635 million in annual water/sewer costs and has reinvented commercial real estate’s energy efficiency benchmarking best practice. For more information, visit www.SRMnetwork.com.