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ASHRAE Audits: What Level Is Right For You?
Energy management often begins with an energy audit, yet many energy managers are uncertain what to include in the scope. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) provides guidelines for three distinct levels of energy...
Hospital Energy Costs Up Sharply, New GBA Survey Reveals
Grumman|Butkus Associates has released its 2023 Hospital Energy and Water Benchmarking Survey, featuring combined data from calendar years 2021 and 2022. For the first time, the report charts and historical data are available at a dedicated website, including...
GBA Promotes Two Employees
GBA's Chicago and New York regional offices promoted Timothy Venturella and Brendan Erskine to Senior Project Engineer at the recent semi-annual meeting. Timothy Venturella joined GBA’s Evanston office in 2023. He graduated with a BA in Public Relations from the...
GBA’s 2023 Sustainability Report Released
Grumman|Butkus Associates continues documenting its efforts to “walk the walk” of sustainability with the release of its annual Sustainability Report. In 2013, the firm released its first annual corporate sustainability report. We recently completed the eleventh...
How To Develop an Effective Energy Management Project List
At GBA, we love helping clients set up Energy Management Systems. A comprehensive tool is the DOE 50001 Ready Navigator (https://navigator.lbl.gov/). It breaks the ISO 50001 Energy Management standard down into 25 tasks. At a minimum, energy management can be about...
Participate in GBA’s Hospital Survey to Receive Free Benchmarking Data
Since its inception in 1995, GBA's Hospital Energy and Water Benchmarking Survey has helped hospitals benchmark their energy and cost performance against other similar facilities, in an anonymous format. Participants are provided with graphical and numerical...