Ingersoll Rand Sponsors USGBC Report that Offers Recommendations to the Obama Administration to Accelerate Building Efficiency and Energy
Washington DC (PRWEB) January 20, 2012
Ingersoll-Rand plc (NYSE:IR), a world leader in creating and sustaining safe, comfortable and efficient environments, has joined with 15 leading companies to sponsor a new U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) report that provides recommendations that can drive economic and environmental benefits of green building without new legislation. Presented to the Obama Administration, the USGBC?s 2nd annual Existing Legal Authorities (ELA) report seeks to identify what the executive branch should do to facilitate sustainability improvements absent congressional assent.
The report, Better Buildings Through Executive Action: Leveraging Existing Authorities to Promote Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Multifamily, Residential and Commercial Buildings, provides a look into activity and progress from the 2010 report as well as identifies new opportunities that include facilitating the use of widely-recognized residential energy efficiency labels; integrating building energy efficiency and sustainability programs into programs managed by the Economic Development Administration; and better utilizing the Department of Defense?s procurement and research authorities to promote green buildings.
?The ability to construct and modify the built environment to incorporate higher performing and more energy-efficient buildings can be a catalyst for job and economic growth,? notes W. Scott Tew, executive director, Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability (CEES), Ingersoll Rand. ?This report underscores how solid and complementary federal actions can accelerate energy efficiency in the U.S., deliver cost savings to building owners and help meet targets around greenhouse gas reduction, without new legislation. We encourage the administration to build upon the momentum created in 2010 and look forward to working with the USGBC in making these recommendations a reality.?
New opportunities in the report targeted to advance sustainability include:
