Cloutier recommends several resources for those interested in sustainability efforts and deep energy retrofits:

IREM has developed, in collaboration with Rocky Mountain Institute, the online course series Analyzing and Presenting Deep Retrofit Value. The three-course series reviews how to capitalize on the value enhancement opportunity in large-scale sustainability and energy efficiency projects, manage the risk associated with these efforts, calculate the project's contribution to asset value, and present the business case to stakeholders.
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance has created a free tool called Spark based on an open-studio platform that the DOE has created. Spark allows you to look at what-if scenarios and projects which areas you might be able to improve and to what extent. free to use, in conjunction with leveraging.
The New Buildings Institute has created a retrofit savings estimator, which Cloutier says is a little more iterative and goes a little deeper. It's a three- or four-step process that gives building owners a series of recommendations for what is possible to improve the costs and savings associated with it.
Rocky Mountain Institute collaborates with NBI for free and paid-for tools and offers case studies of where retrofits have occurred, the associated costs and savings and whether a building is a good candidate for a deep energy retrofit.

NEW YORK —From assembling funds to lack of expertise with all building-system upgrades to getting owner buy-in, the challenges asset managers face during sustainability efforts like deep energy retrofits are many. GlobeSt.com spoke with two experts from IREM on how to meet these challenges and avoid common pitfalls.

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