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The team at Optimal Energy has over 30+ Years’ experience with transforming inefficient buildings into High Performance Building Operations. With over 375 buildings assessed, we’re confident we can help your building operation.

Buildings over time lose their original design settings and efficiency due to several factors that include change in occupancy, tenant use and or equipment misuse and or loss of capacity. Optimal Building can identify various no cost to low-cost options with improving your buildings efficiency saving operating costs, reducing precious energy resources as well as making each building healthier in the process.

Traditionally, more comprehensive energy assessments should be performed every five (5) years depending upon the operation and or any changes within the building operation. Several buildings and operations decide to have a lower-level assessment performed every 2-3 years so that “operational creep” is limited and or reduced to maintain high performance operations.

High Performance Building Operations are buildings, facilities or a set of buildings that operate within the top range of energy performance along with other attributes of energy efficiency and sustainability within a Building Operation. These buildings are more productive for occupants, operate more healthier and use less energy among some benefits. As defined by the United States Energy Independence and Security Act 2007, a high-performance building is: “A building that integrates and optimizes on a lifecycle basis all major high-performance attributes, including energy [and water] conservation, environment, safety, security, durability, accessibility, cost-benefit, productivity, sustainability, functionality, and operational considerations” (Energy Independence and Security Act 2007 401 PL 110-140). Optimal Building will exercise the necessary expertise with identifying and providing recommendations addressing several of these attributes.

High Performance Building Operations are buildings, facilities or a set of buildings that operate within the top range of energy performance along with other attributes of energy efficiency and sustainability within a Building Operation. These buildings are more productive for occupants, operate more healthier and use less energy among some benefits. As defined by the United States Energy Independence and Security Act 2007, a high-performance building is: “A building that integrates and optimizes on a lifecycle basis all major high-performance attributes, including energy [and water] conservation, environment, safety, security, durability, accessibility, cost-benefit, productivity, sustainability, functionality, and operational considerations” (Energy Independence and Security Act 2007 401 PL 110-140). Optimal Building will exercise the necessary expertise with identifying and providing recommendations addressing several of these attributes.

On average, Optimal Building has saved clients an average of approximately $0.13 cents per sf per building and reduced 1 kWh per sf with several buildings saving as high as $0.90 cents per sf per building with reducing 3.65 kWh per sf. Several of these assessments identified operational best practices towards improving the health and sustainability of the building.

Optimal Building with its 25+ years of experience in High Performance Building Operations can identity improvements that contributes to complying with ESG attributes.  Meaning, that your building will demonstrate its compliance and efforts with meeting an important area of ESG “Environmental” compliance that affects Energy Efficiency, Water Efficiency, Carbon Intensity, Environmental Management and most of all, Climate Change!

Optimal Building has refined its building auditing process and practices to perform these assessments, quickly, efficiently, and as competitive as possible saving the owners both money and time with being able to utilize its extensive data base of previously assessed buildings in implementing these cost saving recommendations.

Optimal Building has assessed over 375 buildings and over 100 million square feet of building space and counting. With this rich experience and extensive data base of best practices and savings, Optimal Building brings in an owner, operator industry subject matter expertise into each building assessment.

No, we have assessed buildings as small as 23,000 sf of space with being able to recommend savings paying for the audit cost within a few months. “ALL” assessments have resulted in identified savings that regularly pay for the cost of the recommendations and assessment with 12-months and in many cases, under 6-months. In addition to the cost savings and energy reductions being delivered, the indoor air quality and health improvements along with the ESG benefits can and have transformed several inefficient buildings into more efficient, high performing buildings. Several new energy efficiency regulations mandates that buildings above 20,000 sf be benchmarked, assessed and or audited every five years.

Optimal Building has over 30+ Years’ experience with building operations in identifying improvements in buildings. Our team utilizes its experience in building operations and can make the difference in improving your operation. The Founder and Principal is a subject matter expert in energy efficiency and high-performance building operations with having assessed some of the most iconic buildings in the US and in China with transforming several inefficient buildings into High Performance Building Operations. Let Optimal Building utilize its history and performance benefit your operation.