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Is Your Building A Green Leader? Peak Performer? The Epitome of Energy Conservation? Then There Might be an EBie Award in Your Future

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The Urban Green Council, the New York Chapter of the US Green Building Council and one of our sister organizations in the New York commercial real estate world, is now taking applications for the EBie Awards, which focus on building performance and individual project successes revolving around sustainability, energy conservation, water savings, lighting retrofits and more. The 8-category competition (see categories below) primarily uses metrics as the judging criteria.

The submission deadline is March 30: All submissions are done online at www.ebies.org, where you can find all the entry info you need.

All About the EBies

Once you’ve gathered your metrics, it is estimated that the submission uploading may take between 2 to 4 hours, the Urban Green Council told BOMAfacts, with little to no written material required. Some categories may ask for insights on the project, such as what was innovative or unique, or what challenges were overcome and how will the lessons learned be incorporated into the next project. Such insights will require written responses, which are also submitted on line.

Any building with a good sustainability profile is encouraged to apply, and past Pinnacle nominees are encouraged to review the data compiled for the Energy and Environmental sections to see if it applies.

All buildings must have been completed by 2010, and the project being submitted must have been completed by December 2013 to have accumulated a year’s worth of metrics. There is no entry fee.

The categories—complete with their official, funky names—are:

1. The All-Rounder: Performance Excellence in Multiple Categories (most improved building across multiple categories)

2. All Together Now: Performance Excellence Across a Portfolio (multiple sustainability categories)

3. The Smooth Operator: Operations and Maintenance Excellence (most improvements achieved solely through operations, maintenance or retro-commissioning)

4. Power to the People: Exceptional Energy Savings

5. Shine a Light on Me: The Best Lighting Retrofit

6. Take Me to the River: Winning Water Savings

7. It Takes a Village: Commercial Tenant Performance Improvements (across multiple sustainability categories)

8. Verdant Brainiac: Green Renovation Innovation (most scalable green renovation)

The gala awards ceremony will take place in June at the Hard Rock Café in Times Square, with finalists announced in May. Get your green going and visit www.ebies.org for more information today.