Building Operators and Managers Association-BOMA-7 point challenge
With a large and influential footprint of impact from its members, the BOMA has issued a 7 point challenge for members to reduce their portfolio demands by 30% to 2012
It's nice to come across this sort of sentiment in large scale investment and asset communities represented by a group like the International Building Operators and Managers Association:
BOMA International recognized early on that combating global warming, improving energy efficiency and “going green” was no passing fad, and the association has been rolling out program after program to help its members—and the industry—make serious inroads into improving their efficiencies, cutting their utility expenses, and reducing their carbon footprint. In July, BOMA issued perhaps its biggest challenge for commercial real estate professionals to date: to improve energy efficiency across their portfolios by 30 percent by 2012.
With their industry responsible for 20% of US GHG emissions, that's a lot of room for potential improvement.
“If we can collectively succeed in reducing our energy consumption by 30 percent, we’ll save $7.2 billion and remove 120 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions from the air, which is the equivalent of removing 12 million cars from the roads. It’s a challenge we can’t ignore.”
Find out more about their 7 point challenge and take it up yourself, or pressure your facilities manager to find out what they're doing. Facilities managers of Australia, take heed. If these guys can take aim to bring it in 2 years ahead of schedule (by 2010), that's a worthy race to demonstrate some competitiveness against.