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Join the Commercial Real Estate Energy Alliance

As a member of CREEA, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with the nation's premier building scientists and most prestigious commercial real estate companies on strategies to advance energy efficiency in commercial real estate buildings. For developers, it's a way to stand out in this highly competitive market—cultivating a "green" corporate image, attracting high-quality tenants, and generating solid returns. For tenants, it's a highly productive and cost-effective operational environment as well as an appealing way to support energy sustainability.

Member Benefits

As a member of CREEA, you will benefit from:

1. Efforts to evaluate, benchmark, and monitor energy-efficiency practices.
2. Ideas that will help promote greater use of energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies and techniques that can reduce energy and operating costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
3. Semi-annual CREEA meetings to define, support, and continue CREEA's ongoing efforts.
4. Opportunities to engage in joint development of specifications for technology procurement and to encourage market introduction of energy-efficient, competitively-priced technologies.
5. CREEA initiatives coordinated by DOE:
   • A common set of best practice information, terminology, and tools.
   • A Web site that provides easy access to tools and resources to implement energy management programs—including benchmarking and retro-commissioning.
   • A national campaign (summits, booths, Web site, press releases) to encourage commercial real estate owners to obtain energy savings assessments that benchmark their energy (electric and thermal) consumption at respective properties and identify potential improvements.
   • Energy-saving training curricula for company personnel.
   • Research and development on low-energy buildings and encouragement to the manufacturing sector to engage in such research and development.
   • Energy-efficient technology implementation programs.
   • A strategy to raise awareness of energy efficiency resources available to the commercial and retail building sector, such as loan guarantees for equipment installation, and state and utility energy efficiency incentive and rebate programs.

In order to support and promote CREEA efforts, DOE agrees to:

• Develop specifications for equipment, components, and systems used in commercial real estate properties that will advance the design and implementation of efficiency technologies to the maximum extent economically practical.
• Provide technical expertise for testing, analyzing, developing, and implementing technologies, systems, and processes to improve energy efficiency in the commercial real estate sector.
• Support and coordinate initiatives developed jointly with CREEA members (see number 5 above).

Member Responsibilities

As a CREEA member, you will be asked to:

• Participate in two CREEA meetings per year* to establish objectives and direction.
• Participate in at least one subcommittee of interest. (Time commitment of one hour-long conference call per month.)
• Help establish commercial real estate building performance benchmarks by gathering and sharing your energy, equipment, and building data.**
• Share your best energy efficiency practices in building design, operation, and maintenance.
• Offer your input on future equipment purchases for new construction and retrofits, giving manufacturers incentive to develop higher-efficiency equipment based on potential market scale.
• Participate in scheduled equipment tests to determine real-world performance.
• Explore recommended variations to system designs based on geographical locations.

*Members will incur the cost of travel to these centrally-located meetings.
**No proprietary information will be shared without permission.

Sign Up for the Commercial Real Estate Energy Alliance

Please complete the form below and click the "Submit" button to join CREEA. The information you provide here will help the Department of Energy better serve your needs. Your information is never sold, rented, distributed, or disclosed in any way. If you would like more information about CREEA but are not ready to join, please contact us.

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Energy Considerations

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Subcommittees (opens new window)

CREEA members are asked to sign up for one subcommittee of interest. Please indicate your choice below. Lighting and Electrical Hospitality Shopping Center/Retail HVAC Whole-Building Integration (Renewable Energy; Technology Integration; Building Envelope) Existing Buildings

Agreements

DOE lists members of the CREEA in announcements, press materials, and other collateral. Do we have your permission to include your organization on those lists?	Yes No
May the CREEA use your company logo on posters and other printed material, with the understanding that permission will be confirmed before each use?	Yes No
If we have permission to use your logo, please enter the name and email address of someone who can provide a high-resolution (300 dpi) version of your logo.

I have read the list of CREEA membership benefits and responsibilities above. In order to support Energy Independence for our nation, I agree, on behalf of my organization, to fulfill the responsibilities of CREEA membership as outlined above.

Note: Membership in the CREEA initiative does not involve a binding commitment of specific resources or monetary contribution for CREEA members or for DOE.