Greener, Greater Buildings Plan

Do you need your building benchmarked for the May 1, 2011 deadline?

Servidyne is your connection to meeting the requirements set by The New York City Greener, Greater Buildings Plan. Whether you own one building or an entire portfolio, we have the expertise and the knowledge needed to make sure your data is uploaded and documented in the EPA’s online Portfolio Manager.

What is The New York City Greener, Greater Buildings Plan?

To address the critical area of energy use in existing buildings, New York City has enacted a set of efficiency requirements for existing private and public sector buildings. In December 2009, Mayor Bloomberg signed the four legislative components of the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan.  Together these laws remove a loophole in the energy code to ensure that it applies to all construction projects, requires annual energy efficiency benchmarking that will be disclosed to the public, and mandates a set of cost-effective energy efficiency upgrades and evaluations of the city’s largest buildings, both public and private.

By focusing primarily on more than 22,000 of the city’s largest buildings, which constitute roughly half of citywide square footage and 45 percent of citywide greenhouse gas emissions, the Greener Greater Buildings Plan will result in an emissions reduction of almost five percent. It will also reduce citywide energy costs by $700 million annually by 2030 and create roughly 17,800 construction-related jobs over ten years.

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How The Plan Impacts You

As of December 2010, existing buildings in the New York metropolitan area are now required to comply with the energy standards recently set by the legislation enacted in 2009 known as the Greener, Greater Buildings Program.

The four parts of the legislation include:

• Benchmarking (LL84)
• Audits and Retro-commissioning (LL87)
• Lighting Upgrades and Sub-metering (LL88)
• Energy Code (LL85)

The New York Department of Finance issued a letter to all buildings that must be Benchmarked by May 1, 2011.

Source www.nyc.gov Greener, Greater Buildings Plan