Bringing the Commercial Buildings Sector under One Roof: Mobilizing Broad Stakeholder Collaboration to Accelerate Market Transition to Net Zero Energy

摘要

Transforming the commercial buildings market to achieve dramatically lower levels ofrnenergy use requires a comprehensive and concerted industry effort, sufficient in scale torninfluence the more than $600 billion per year that the sector spends on new construction,rnrenovation, and energy. Many stakeholders-including industry and professional associations,rnvoluntary high-performance building organizations, codes and standards organizations, thernfederal government, leading utilities, state and local agencies, private building designers,rndevelopers, owners and operators, and equipment manufacturers-will need to participaternactively and in concert to effectively restructure today’s standard design-build-operate process.rnIn response to the need for more aggressive and effective action, the CommercialrnBuildings Consortium, a multi-year public/private initiative is underway, focused on achievingrnsector-wide transformation through coordinated technology development, demonstration, andrndeployment supported by major innovations in policy, financing, project design and delivery,rnand building energy management. Industry stakeholders have convened a broad-basedrnconsortium, which is organized around 11 working groups covering topics ranging from buildingrnenvelope, systems and controls, integrated design and delivery, benchmarking and performancernassurance, financing, and workforce development, with the primary objective of acceleratingrnneeded technology innovation, process change, and market transformation. Throughrndevelopment and dissemination of a Next Generation Technologies report and an Analysis ofrnCost and Non-cost Barriers and Policy Solutions report, the more than 340 consortium membersrnare developing and delivering strategies and best practices to achieve a market transition to netrnzero energy new commercial buildings by 2030 and all commercial buildings by 2050.