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ULI and Johnson Controls Release Global Energy Efficiency Survey Results


A growing number of building owners and managers around the world are combating rising energy prices by investing in energy efficiency in buildings. Findings show key trends:
  • Owners are motivated by cost savings above all other factors, but government incentives and enhanced public image are also playing a key role in determining investments;
  • The trend towards ‘certifying’ individual buildings is rapidly expanding beyond new construction to include existing assets;
  • Owners in North American markets expect lighting and smart building technology to play a major role in short-term energy management strategies.
  • Structural barriers in real estate markets are limiting the amount of capital investment being made to make buildings more energy efficient.

Nearly 4,000 building owners and operators participated in the survey, representing key real estate markets around the world, including the U.S., the European Union, China and India. ULI Trustee Ken Hubbard, EVP at Hines helped interpret the survey findings at a press event at the National Press Club.

Read the ULI and JCI Press Release.
Read our announcement.
Related ULI study on energy efficiency in buildings:
Climate Change, Land Use, and Energy 2010: New Tools. New Rules.

This report explores an issue that has risen to become one of the most immediate challenges for sustainable development: investing in energy efficiency improvements in existing real estate. New regulations and finance tools are emerging which seek to capture value associated with energy efficiency in commercial buildings. This report includes stories from the “retrofitting” trenches, prevailing attitudes, and case studies that provide a benchmark for how energy efficiency is valued in real estate transactions today. Emerging energy and climate change policies are identified at all levels of government which taken together are forming a new backdrop for real estate investment. Read the press release. Read the press release.