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ENERGY STAR® Building Upgrade Manual

PDF file - Adobe Acrobat required Part 1: Business Analysis, Financing 411 KB /PDF
PDF file - Adobe Acrobat required Part 2: Recommissioning, Lighting, Supplemental Load Reductions 954 KB /PDF
PDF file - Adobe Acrobat required Part 3: Fan System Upgrades, Heating & Cooling System Upgrades 1.4 MB /PDF
PDF file - Adobe Acrobat required Part 4: Appendix (Heating & Cooling Survey), Glossary, Bibliography 403 KB /PDF

December 2004     

The ENERGY STAR® Upgrade Manual for Buildings is a guide for planning and implementing profitable upgrades that will improve the energy performance of your facilities. The Manual is a guide for developing a comprehensive energy management strategy and an integrated approach to upgrading existing buildings. It also provides information on proven energy-efficient technologies that can produce energy savings of 35% or greater by following the staged process outlined in the manual.

Prepared by:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

168 pages