This online resource from the U.S. EPA gives facility managers and building professionals a way to track and reduce the emissions and resource use from their buildings.
Any building can efficiently track and manage resources through the use of Portfolio Manager. The tool allows you to streamline your portfolio's energy and water data, and track key consumption, performance, and cost information portfolio-wide. For example, you can:
- Track multiple energy and water meters for each facility
- Customize meter names and key information
- Benchmark your facilities relative to their past performance
- View percent improvement in weather-normalized source energy
- Monitor energy and water costs
- Share your building data with others inside or outside of your organization
- Enter operating characteristics, tailored to each space use category within your building.
Facilities can use this tool to get rated under the EPA’s energy performance rating system. The system, based on source energy, accounts for the impact of weather variations as well as changes in key physical and operating characteristics of each building, and buildings that score a 75 rating or higher may qualify for the Energy Star label.
