How can building owners and operators turn decarbonization goals into projects that improve performance and reduce operating costs? Drawing on his book and experience developing corporate energy and sustainability programs, Mike Dieterich will walk through a five-step framework: understand your systems, identify priorities, execute effectively, verify performance, and scale what works. Practical examples will connect building optimization, electrification, energy procurement, and storage to project scoping, financial evaluation, and measured results.
What you will learn
- Identify operating improvements through equipment schedules, controls, energy use, and building performance data.
- Sequence efficiency, building envelope, and electrification projects to improve equipment sizing and investment decisions.
- Evaluate project costs and benefits, including maintenance, utility rates, incentives, and infrastructure needs.
- Assess where energy procurement, demand response, and battery storage can help manage electricity costs.
- Verify savings and emissions reductions, then use the results to expand successful projects across a building portfolio.
Resource links
• Decarbonization That Works: From Targets to Results book
• Presenter background
Audience
Building owners and operators, facility and energy managers, architects, engineers, capital project teams, corporate sustainability leaders, utility professionals, and anyone interested in practical approaches to improving buildings while reducing costs and emissions.
