Green Facilities Partnership
LIVE Green’s first Energy Assessment workshop was attended by facility owners, facility managers, contractors, engineers, and architects. A bulk of the workshop focused on learning to identify the most effective energy saving opportunities in your building.
The presentation by Marcus B. Sheffer focused on providing specific information on:
• Energy billing analysis
• Energy audits and assessments – working with experts or completing
your own
• Energy saving strategies
Marcus Sheffer – Energy Assessment workshop
Funding Opportunities in an Energy Based Economy was presented by Dennis Maloskey the Executive Director for the Governor’s Green Government Council.
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Thaddeus Stevens College
Approximately one third of primary energy is consumed in buildings such as dwellings, offices, hospitals, and schools where it is utilized for space heating and cooling, lighting, and the operation of appliances. Energy use in buildings represents a major contributor to fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide production.
The Green Facilities Partnership seeks to help Lancaster institutions achieve significant reductions of energy and waste while achieving more efficient procurement, and reductions in operating costs. The benefits of making these improvements include reduced environmental and health impacts, increased productivity, better quality of work life, and an increase in employee retention as well as reduced liability, legal costs and insurance. Furthermore, this program will assist some industries in complying with environmental mandates and policies.
Southern Market Center
The partnership will encourage members to share successes and challenges in a peer group setting, with on-going input from local experts and Green Seal. The goal is to transform the original institutional participants into model organizations that will lead other organizations down the path to sustainability.
Goals
The primary goals of LIVE’s Green Facilities Partnership are to assist each institution in
- Completing a comprehensive facilities audit
- Completing a green action plan
- Implementing green action plan
- Demonstrating measurable results
Partners / Resources
- Lancaster Chamber of Commerce
- Green Seal
- Department of Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- PENNTAP
- Environmental Management Assistance Program
We thank the Lancaster County Community Foundation for being a funding partner in this program
