Kick-Starting Energy Efficiency and Green Building in the Commercial Sector
随着经济刺激草案包（美国复苏和再投资计划）在国会通过，专家们指出，由于预期有较强的重点放在能源效率，并在包装的绿色就业机会，拥有多项针对建筑行业项目的蜿蜒。值得称赞的建议是，针对奖励在商业建筑领域的能源效率的改善似乎拿出短。
The majority of the proposed stimulus dollars aimed at the building sector are focused on public building retrofits ($6 billion for federal building energy efficiency projects) and weatherization and efficiency in various parts of the housing sector (~$9.5 billion). These incentives have the potential to result in considerable environmental benefits while stimulating significant activity in the building retrofit sectors -- energy service companies, engineering consultants and energy efficient product manufacturers should be gearing up for significant work, particularly on the 75 percent of public buildings that President Obama has stated he wants tomake more energy efficient。
The proposed stimulus appears to fall short in the commercial building sector (which includes roughly $4 trillion worth of buildings), however, where the historical tenant-landlord split incentive problems mean that a large effort is needed to change business as usual. While roughly $7 billion in State Energy Program funds and Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants可以在国家和地方层面来影响商业建筑行业，还有很多其他的，这将有可能消耗这些资金只留下用于商业建筑行业的一小部分，有相当一部分的程序。精明的房地产业主和投资者谁已经有能效的眼睛将可能是能够识别并有资格在他们的区域的额外激励计划，但目前还不清楚，如果激励机制将是广大车主的广泛足以改变行为和谁尚未看到能效值，并通过物业管理实践运营商降低他们的能源使用。
While the debate on the stimulus will surely go back and forth in the coming days and the proposals for building sector energy efficiency incentives will be adjusted, it is becoming increasing clear that the commercial real estate industry is sailing into a much larger financial风暴。
The Real Estate Roundtable estimates that approximately $400 billion of commercial mortgages will mature in 2009 and need to be refinanced (I have a seen a range of estimates -- from $300 billion to $600 billion). With the questionable availability of financing, there is a very substantial risk that the government will need to bail out the real estate industry as it has done the financial sector -- with a direct injection of capital for loan guarantees or even the direct purchase of commercial real estate-backed debt. Already industry players are排队and要求这样的事情发生。
While a bailout of the commercial real estate sector is surely controversial and debatable, it is looking more and more likely. Whether the money comes through TARP (the Troubled Assets Relief Program), TALF (Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility), or some other yet to be named and abbreviated entity, it will likely be in a large enough sum to have an impact on the market, and hopefully structured in such a way so as not to reward past irresponsible lending, but provide enough liquidity to keep the market from completely collapsing.
鉴于这种大局观，新政府应该好好考虑如何使用这样的救助有超越包含在一揽子刺激计划基本能效激励机制在建筑行业具有更大的影响。这一行动将不仅保持行业漂浮度过危机，但会改善我们的建筑存量的整体效率 - 从而获得更好的持续的经济表现。
要做到这一点的方法之一是要求，对于使用贷款的钱借来，保证或以其他方式由联邦基金支持再融资的所有建筑物，业主：
• Benchmark the building using the EPA Energy Star Portfolio Manager (free)
•进行低成本的建筑能源审计（便宜）
• Undertake any upgrades uncovered by the audit that have a payback of two years or less (makes good financial sense, and might make the owner eligible for incentives included in the stimulus bill).
A more aggressive stimulus could provide more attractive loan rates based on the percentage of improvement over the Energy Star benchmark achieved by the building year over year.
This would get a large number of building owners (many of whom have never thought about energy efficiency) benchmarking their buildings and adopting some of the basic best practices that are needed for them to start seeing the economic benefits of energy efficiency.
In addition to providing an incentive real estate owners can't refuse, the administration could use the broader financial bailout as a way to create tenant demand for energy efficient green buildings. For example what would happen if the government required that any financial institution, or other entity, receiving government TARP money or other bailout, adopt the总务管理局的绿色建筑要求？这些要求本质上说，在他们租用空间的任何新建筑物，或现有的建筑物，必须努力实现LEED银奖。这将快速创建绿地在全国各大中心城区市场需求的租户。
建筑占我们能源使用和温室气体排放量的近40％（与我们的电力的近70％）。一揽子刺激计划应该做降低公共建筑的影响的一个好工作。而如果政府是创造绿色就业机会，刺激经济和创造一个更节能低污染的经济真的严重，我们应该考虑采取一些更大胆的这些步骤，用以推动商业地产的绿化也是如此。
皮特·阿特金is an associate atGreenOrder,an LRN company. The strategy and management consulting firm has helped leading companies turn sustainability into business value since 2000. Have a question or thought to share with Pete about his posting? Email him by clickinghere。
The majority of the proposed stimulus dollars aimed at the building sector are focused on public building retrofits ($6 billion for federal building energy efficiency projects) and weatherization and efficiency in various parts of the housing sector (~$9.5 billion). These incentives have the potential to result in considerable environmental benefits while stimulating significant activity in the building retrofit sectors -- energy service companies, engineering consultants and energy efficient product manufacturers should be gearing up for significant work, particularly on the 75 percent of public buildings that President Obama has stated he wants tomake more energy efficient。
The proposed stimulus appears to fall short in the commercial building sector (which includes roughly $4 trillion worth of buildings), however, where the historical tenant-landlord split incentive problems mean that a large effort is needed to change business as usual. While roughly $7 billion in State Energy Program funds and Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants可以在国家和地方层面来影响商业建筑行业，还有很多其他的，这将有可能消耗这些资金只留下用于商业建筑行业的一小部分，有相当一部分的程序。精明的房地产业主和投资者谁已经有能效的眼睛将可能是能够识别并有资格在他们的区域的额外激励计划，但目前还不清楚，如果激励机制将是广大车主的广泛足以改变行为和谁尚未看到能效值，并通过物业管理实践运营商降低他们的能源使用。
While the debate on the stimulus will surely go back and forth in the coming days and the proposals for building sector energy efficiency incentives will be adjusted, it is becoming increasing clear that the commercial real estate industry is sailing into a much larger financial风暴。
The Real Estate Roundtable estimates that approximately $400 billion of commercial mortgages will mature in 2009 and need to be refinanced (I have a seen a range of estimates -- from $300 billion to $600 billion). With the questionable availability of financing, there is a very substantial risk that the government will need to bail out the real estate industry as it has done the financial sector -- with a direct injection of capital for loan guarantees or even the direct purchase of commercial real estate-backed debt. Already industry players are排队and要求这样的事情发生。
While a bailout of the commercial real estate sector is surely controversial and debatable, it is looking more and more likely. Whether the money comes through TARP (the Troubled Assets Relief Program), TALF (Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility), or some other yet to be named and abbreviated entity, it will likely be in a large enough sum to have an impact on the market, and hopefully structured in such a way so as not to reward past irresponsible lending, but provide enough liquidity to keep the market from completely collapsing.
鉴于这种大局观，新政府应该好好考虑如何使用这样的救助有超越包含在一揽子刺激计划基本能效激励机制在建筑行业具有更大的影响。这一行动将不仅保持行业漂浮度过危机，但会改善我们的建筑存量的整体效率 - 从而获得更好的持续的经济表现。
要做到这一点的方法之一是要求，对于使用贷款的钱借来，保证或以其他方式由联邦基金支持再融资的所有建筑物，业主：
• Benchmark the building using the EPA Energy Star Portfolio Manager (free)
•进行低成本的建筑能源审计（便宜）
• Undertake any upgrades uncovered by the audit that have a payback of two years or less (makes good financial sense, and might make the owner eligible for incentives included in the stimulus bill).
A more aggressive stimulus could provide more attractive loan rates based on the percentage of improvement over the Energy Star benchmark achieved by the building year over year.
This would get a large number of building owners (many of whom have never thought about energy efficiency) benchmarking their buildings and adopting some of the basic best practices that are needed for them to start seeing the economic benefits of energy efficiency.
In addition to providing an incentive real estate owners can't refuse, the administration could use the broader financial bailout as a way to create tenant demand for energy efficient green buildings. For example what would happen if the government required that any financial institution, or other entity, receiving government TARP money or other bailout, adopt the总务管理局的绿色建筑要求？这些要求本质上说，在他们租用空间的任何新建筑物，或现有的建筑物，必须努力实现LEED银奖。这将快速创建绿地在全国各大中心城区市场需求的租户。
建筑占我们能源使用和温室气体排放量的近40％（与我们的电力的近70％）。一揽子刺激计划应该做降低公共建筑的影响的一个好工作。而如果政府是创造绿色就业机会，刺激经济和创造一个更节能低污染的经济真的严重，我们应该考虑采取一些更大胆的这些步骤，用以推动商业地产的绿化也是如此。
皮特·阿特金is an associate atGreenOrder,an LRN company. The strategy and management consulting firm has helped leading companies turn sustainability into business value since 2000. Have a question or thought to share with Pete about his posting? Email him by clickinghere。
