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Interior Lighting Campaign Saves Awardees More than $13.2 Million
BTO’s Commercial Buildings Integration program seeks to advance a range of innovative building technologies and solutions, to produce significant energy savings, greenhouse gas emissions reductions and save businesses money. CBI partners with a diverse set of stakeholders to produce simple, straightforward, intuitive and actionable resources, strategies and tools to be shared through ongoing industry engagement and innovative programming. Research partnerships and pilots help CBI gain industry perspective, connect, develop and disseminate technical expertise, access laboratory and testing infrastructure; and recognize, validate and collaborate with market leaders.
From technology research to tax incentives information, to evaluation tools and workforce development, CBI works across multiple disciplines to help U.S. businesses save energy, time and money. Learn more about CBI, meet the team, and see the program’s full activity list.
CBI's Project Portfolio
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Building energy data standards and tools help decision makers to collect, manage and analyze data about building energy performance.
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The Commercial Buildings Integration program engages market leaders to accelerate adoption of energy-saving technologies and practices.
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CBI supports Efficient and Healthy School partnerships to enable equitable access to energy resources and opportunities.
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DOE facilitates the development of workforce guidance in career fields considered key to achieving the highest levels of building energy efficiency.
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Learn about the Buildings Upgrade Prize designed to help U.S. buildings transition to be more energy-efficient and clean energy-ready.
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CBI works with industry partners and BTO's Codes Program to develop guidance for achieving energy efficiency in commercial building projects.
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Demonstrating Efficient Solutions in Buildings (DES-B) supports demonstration, validation, technical-economic analysis, and documentation of energy efficiency technologies and solutions.
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Zero energy buildings combine energy efficiency and renewable energy generation to consume only as much energy as can be produced onsite.