Combining Community Resiliency and Energy Efficiency Retrofits
Publication Year: 2013

Combining Community Resiliency and Energy Efficiency Retrofits: The Rutgers Center for Green Building with the Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEB Hub)

Citation:

“Combining Community Resiliency and Energy Efficiency Retrofits: The Rutgers Center for Green Building with the Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEB Hub)”. Prepared by Jennifer Souder, Researcher, Rutgers Center for Green Building and Jennifer Senick, Executive Director, Rutgers Center for Green Building and Editorial Board Member, Brownfield Renewal, for the Energy Efficient Buildings Hub, Philadelphia, PA. 2013. https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-vwza-ev34

There is a unique multifaceted approach to investigating this question that is taking place in the greater Philadelphia area through the Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEB Hub). The goal of the EEB Hub, a U.S. DOE initiative, is to reduce annual energy use in average size commercial, institutional and multifamily buildings in the region by 20 percent by 2020. Advanced energy retrofits (AERs) make use of new but proven technologies, systems and processes to achieve significant energy and, ultimately, economic savings. EEB Hub Deputy Director Laurie Actman anticipates that EEB Hub efforts to accelerate AERs will “foster increased interest and investment in innovative and cost effective energy efficient building and retrofit strategies by the region’s building owners, creating a culture where that’s the norm rather than the exception.”