The project team will  work directly with a diverse group of 12 to15 major tenants who are executing new leases (or renewing existing leases) to help them incorporate high performance measures into the initial buildout (or, in the case of renewals, the retrofit) of their leased premises, and track the savings from those measures. The goal of this work is to develop replicable, scalable processes for the design and installation of high performance tenant improvements, and to document and commercialize the business case for doing so. The project partners will all work to source tenants to participate in the demonstration project.

For each participating tenant installation, the project team will:

• work with the tenant during design phase to suggest potential green, indoor environmental quality and energy efficient measures, providing ROI and payback period analyses;
• develop a baseline energy usage model and cost estimate for hypothetical BAU code-compliant buildout;
• apply best practices for (i) measurement and verification of energy savings produced by the Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs), utilizing continuous commissioning to optimize savings; and (ii) tracking employee retention, health and productivity gains from incorporating superior Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) measures;
• work with property owners, where possible, to pursue an integrated building approach to incorporate a high performance retrofit of the building's central systems;
• develop replicable financing mechanisms to fund the capital costs of green buildouts/retrofits where applicable;
• produce case studies showcasing economic and environmental returns from the green measures, and in the case of buildouts undertaken in high performance buildings, quantify and emphasize the added economic benefit that flows through to the tenant from the building's more efficient central systems;
• develop an aggressive marketing strategy to commercialize the business case for retrofits based on the project results; and
• document job hours applicable to the buildouts.