In exchange, the building owners would be required to keep their apartment units priced at affordable levels.
That, the city says, will depend on how quickly building owners can make repairs and other issues.
Both building owners and governments have been turning their attention to energy efficiency in the last few years.
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The key for building owners is to invest in green features that have a return by lowering operating costs.
That will take time and the willingness of shop or building owners to spend the money to try out the technology.
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Critics said the company, one of the largest office building owners in the U.S., should stick to geographies it knows best.
The jury also found the building owners liable for failing to repair the elevator after being warned it might be dangerous.
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The big question is: Will the political parties respond to public outrage and finally bring negligent factory and building owners to book?
The building owners said a wind tunnel analysis was done before construction.
And the beneficiaries, along with building owners and homeowners (and the planet itself), will be those new IT-centric companies that glue it all together.
To access the much larger reserves locked away in private buildings, education and communication will continue to be vital between developers, investors, and building owners.
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And building owners need to be receptive to the changing efficiency paradigm, from the idea of efficiency as a standalone product to an integrated project.
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In addition to accelerated implementation of mandated boiler replacements, Stringer is pushing tax abatement incentives and grants to encourage building owners to replace the toxic boilers.
Efficiency developers need to hasten efforts to standardize measurement methodologies and data reporting, helping investors and building owners confidently understand the value of their efficiency reserves.
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Using sensors and software to control office lighting, reduce energy use and improve worker productivity is gradually gaining acceptance among building owners and attracting interest from investors.
Operation Clean Halls started in Manhattan in the 1990s, when crime was at an all-time high and some private building owners felt overwhelmed with wrongdoing inside their properties.
When combined with an absence of customer education and a product that lacks the sex appeal of solar, building owners often overlook efficiency reserves as a source of revenue.
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The speaker said she will also be supporting state legislation that would provide building owners with a tax exemption, capping their property taxes at a certain percentage of their rental income.
And we have asked Congress to work with us to move on providing more effective incentives for commercial building owners all across the country to move forward on these energy-efficient steps.
Losses by commercial-building owners, lenders and investors are likely to be tempered by the lack of overbuilding in recent years and the ability of most office buildings and other commercial ventures to keep current on their mortgages.
The proliferation of city and state building energy efficiency codes, combined with the eagerness of building owners to seek LEED ratings, tells me that policymakers and the market are increasingly demanding energy efficiency in new construction.
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This convergence of information and communications technology and physical infrastructure in the built environment is providing building owners and occupants with actionable information about a building or space that allows them manage that building or space more effectively.
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Because the integrated lights will also be able to send digital information back and forth, building owners and managers will be able to get more information about energy consumption than they could with separate controls today, Lawler said.
Despite advanced HVAC equipment and building software, owners are wary to invest in solutions with long or uncertain payback periods.
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Conversely, if inventories are building, store owners are more likely to wait for customers to clear the shelves before stocking up on new products.
Not that you'll ever go there -- the existence of the area was officially denied by the building's owners until the late 1980s and it doesn't even appear on the original blueprints.
Northampton Borough Council said it had not been able to contact the building's new owners, who were based in Cyprus.
The owner of the building, Mohammad Sohel Rana, was arrested last month as were the owners of factories inside the building.
Levi Strauss no longer produces garments in multistory facilities that have factories with different owners in the building.
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Alternatively, a buyer could reach out to the other owners in the building and try to make deals with them, she said.
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