If you’re involved in buildings, sustainability, technology and/or energy and want to reduce your energy costs by incorporating smarter energy usage innovations, join the DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) at the 2015 Building Energy Summit March 25 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW).
The fourth annual summit, which is produced by CoR Advisors in partnership with the DowntownDC BID, will offer education on energy efficient technologies and solutions for building owners and operators and so many more of today’s energy stakeholders.
This year’s summit will be keynoted by Chip Akridge, founder and chairman of Akridge commercial real estate, who will discuss how his firm has slashed their overall building energy costs by 40 percent and the benefits they are reaping as a result.
“The 2015 Building Energy Summit will share successful case studies and provide specific guidelines for benchmarking buildings, monitoring real time energy usage, analyzing operational data, making efficient upgrades and changes, and integrating the latest technologies to significantly cut energy consumption,” said Richard H. Bradley, executive director of the DowntownDC BID.
The focus of the 2015 summit will be the integration of new technologies into energy management—from automated building solutions to advanced data and analytics. Real estate veterans will join with technology and energy experts to present new approaches to energy conservation in buildings, along with the environmental and economic benefits of each initiative.
This is your opportunity to meet and collaborate with people and companies from across many fields who are changing the building industry.
The District of Columbia remains a leader in building efficiency. In late 2006, the D.C. City Council passed an initiative making the nation’s capital the first major city to require developers to adhere to guidelines established by the U.S. Green Building Council. Today, the District is a national leader in green building, leading the nation in LEED-certified space per person and introducing some of the strongest green building codes in the country.
The DowntownDC BID launched the DowntownDC ecoDistrict in April 2011. In so doing, the BID made a commitment to organize major property owners within its area to take collective action to reduce the BID area’s carbon footprint and consumption of resources and, at the same time, increase market share and profitability.
The DowntownDC ecoDistrict encompasses the entire DowntownDC BID area—comprising 68 million square feet (SF) of office space, more than a dozen major civic and cultural institutions, and some 6,000 residences.
The 2015 Building Energy Summit is a showcase of the DowntownDC BID’s commitment to promote energy efficiency efforts as part of the Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Challenge (BBC). In 2011, the BID pledged to help building owners reduce collective energy consumption across the DowntownDC ecoDistrict by 20 percent by the year 2020. The Summit will also highlight the new Smarter DC Challenge, which aligns with the BBC to establish reduction goals and offers national recognition for buildings where property management and building occupants collaborate to achieve those goals.
The Building Energy Summit will held from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on March 25 in DowntownDC at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center.
REGISTER TODAY and learn about the latest program details by visiting: www.buildingenergysummit.com