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The Building Owners and Manager’s Association (BOMA) Foundation is affiliated with BOMA International, the nation’s oldest and largest commercial real estate organization, with approximately 19,000 members representing 80% of the commercial real estate market in the United States. BOMA’s new operational excellence program, the BOMA Energy Efficiency Program (BEEP) is being offered for use with federal and regional programs as a stand alone offering or in conjunction with value added services. BEEP provides information and resources for reducing the energy consumption of commercial office buildings via six 120-minute seminars that qualify for continuing professional credits. BEEP was designed to:

• Educate owners and operators of commercial real estate on how to change their business processes to foster ongoing savings and improvements.
• Deliver energy savings quickly through no and low cost improvements
• Measure and track successes with EPA’s Energy Performance Rating system
• Establish strong relationships with federal agencies, regional utilities, commercial real estate organizations, and local BOMA associations.

This paper will focus on BOMA’s leadership role in developing a market transforming, energy efficiency initiative and the resulting program - BEEP – for the commercial real estate industry. BEEP was modeled after the EPA’s ENERGY STAR program and developed with the expertise of commercial real estate practitioners. In addition, this paper will provide a summary of the lessons learned and best approaches to reach and educate commercial real estate practitioners on the importance of and opportunity to improve energy performance and enhance the asset value of commercial real estate.

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Panels of the 2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Panel 1. Residential Buildings: Technologies, Design, Performance Analysis, and Building Industry Trends

Panel 2. Residential Buildings: Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

Panel 3. Commercial Buildings: Technologies, Design, Performance Analysis, and Building Industry Trends

Panel 4. Commercial Buildings: Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

Panel 5. Utility Regulation and Competition: Incentives, Strategies, and Policies

Panel 6. Market Transformation: Designing for Lasting Change

Panel 7. Human and Social Dimensions of Energy Use: Trends and Their Implications

Panel 8. Changing the Climate for Energy Efficiency: Local, National, and International Policy Dimensions

Panel 9. Appliances, Lighting, Information Technologies, Consumer Electronics, and Miscellaneous End Uses

Panel 10. Roundtables and Interactive Sessions: Learning by Doing

Panel 11. Efficient Communities

Panel 12. Energy Conversations