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An Overview of the Maryland Climate Solution Act of 2022 and Building Energy Performance Standards for Condominiums and Cooperatives
Reaching Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Buildings Buildings account for 16% of Maryland's greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions. To address this, Maryland's Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 requires covered buildings to reduce these GhG emissions over time with the...
An OpenAI ChatGPT Essay on Energy Efficiency for Condominiums
So, you may have heard about OpenAI's ChatGPT program. I was interested, so I gave it a go with the prompt: "Write a 500-word essay on the benefits of energy efficiency for condominiums with central HVAC plants." The result? As Larry David would say, "pretty, pretty,...
The Role of Technology in Community Associations
It’s Friday evening at 10 pm and your phone rings. It’s the emergency answering service with a report of an active leak damaging multiple units. Facing the prospect of a long and difficult night ahead, you think to yourself, “there’s got to be a better way.”...
Reduce Gas Bills with a Boiler Outside Air Reset
Boiler rooms are "oubliettes," which is a French word for "places of forgetting," as Malagant describes to Guinevere in the 1995 Connery-Gere classic, "First Knight." And if you think that reference is dated, check out these pics to prove that some boiler rooms...
Energy Efficiency and its Effect on Affordable Housing
According to the U.S Department of Energy, “Thirty-five percent of all households now rent, and more than 60% of all rental housing, totaling 30 million households, is in the multifamily sector.” (1) Many of the more affordable multifamily properties were built...
Using Energy Efficiency to Save Money and the Planet
Change is Coming for Common Ownership Communities Washington DC and its surrounding counties have ambitious energy management plans to “decarbonize” and dramatically reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. They are actively working to meet these goals...