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Regular Checkups of Green Buildings Can Yield Millions in Savings Premium Link

Regular Checkups of Green Buildings Can Yield Millions in Savings 1

Rick Friedman for The Chronicle

Chris Powell, a facilities manager at Brown U., hires energy consultants to go through buildings looking for inefficiencies large and small.

The new green building on campus might be a big, bulky classroom facility or a research lab, but think of it for a moment as a sleek, high-performance automobile. Would you drive your Porsche without ever getting the oil changed? Would you buy a Prius without a working speedometer? Of course not. But many colleges treat their high-profile green buildings the very same way. The performance...

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