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Wheelhouse Apartments and its sister company, Boutique Apartments,
are trusted property management names in the Denver Metro area,
with over 100 buildings under management. Now we are applying our
expertise to the commercial property market.
Part of the Wheelhouse family of companies: Boutique Apartments • Wheelhouse Apartments • Wheelhouse Commercial Management • Wheelhouse Construction
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With our recent absorption of The Summit
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the experience of a team with over 30 years in
commercial property management.
Wheelhouse Commercial Management offers
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We provide professional expertise to office,
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efficiency requirements, including
performing energy assessments
every 10 years, performing retro-
commissioning every 10 years and
implementing these cost-effective
measures within two years, and
implementing one-time lighting
upgrades. The campaign also will
phase in existing buildings:
• 30,000 sf or larger in 2018, and
• 20,000 sf or larger in 2020.
• Survey results. According to the
EPA, Energy Star helped Americans
save $34 billion in energy costs in
2015, while costing only $57 million
a year to run. On this budget, Ener-
gy Star offers one of the most wide-
ly used tools among professionals
seeking to monitor and measure
their buildings’ energy consumption
for free.
Our recent survey on Energy Star
found strong nonpartisan support,
with industry groups and leaders
making unequivocal statements
touting the benefits. Respondents
noted:
• 78 percent would be concerned
if Energy Star funding was reduced/
removed.
• 75 percent were unfamiliar with
benchmarking tools aside from
Energy Star.
• 64 percent reported Portfolio
Manager usage.
• 61 percent were required to
benchmark their facility/portfolio’s
consumption.
• What’s next? Reduction or loss in
funding for Energy Star may result
in detrimental consequences to
many of these ordinances. Portfo-
lio Manager uses data from 2003,
with a major update expected soon.
Should funding cease, the update
may not materialize and build-
ings will continue being measured
against extremely outdated data,
providing artificial and incorrect
information. Continuous measure-
ments and comparisons would be
difficult, and incentives to reducing
efficiency may be lost.
Unfortunately, no viable alterna-
tives to Portfolio Manager exist. One
solution could be for cities to build
their own program and database,
although the budget, time, man-
power and infrastructure needed
to take on such a project could be
challenging.
In this unstable political climate,
the future of Energy Star still is
uncertain. Without ideal alterna-
tives, numerous stakeholders –
including policymakers, building
professionals and industry groups
– may have to consider what the
loss of Energy Star could mean for
them.▲
Moeller
dates for energy analytics include
any building with a building auto-
mation system. When implement-
ing such a program, make sure you
have the organizational capacity
to analyze data, act on alerts and
document actions. Consider hiring a
building energy consultant to assist
developing a program that’s best
for your organization and consider
utilizing the vendor for monitoring
and analysis as they have an under-
standing of the software that will
help streamline implementation.
Energy analytics is beneficial at
the single-building level. These
analytics become even more sig-
nificant when used across multiple
facilities and geographic locations.
Real estate investment trusts, large
organizations with nationwide
portfolios and facility management
organizations are several of the
organizations needing to evaluate
energy usage at a large scale, and
energy analytics can handle the
data. So, whether you have a single
owner-occupied facility or nation-
wide portfolio, make the best of
your investment by keeping your
facility tuned and operating at peak
performance utilizing energy ana-
lytics. Your customers, staff, tenants
and shareholders will thank you.▲
D’Antonio
The Red Cross has proven itself
in disaster situations over more
than a century of active response.
That same commitment is focused
on active threats and is tailored to
this threat’s unique profile. The Red
Cross has put together a set of mate-
rials based on widely accepted best
practices supported by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Department
of Homeland Security and Federal
Emergency Management Agency. The
American Red Cross has an exper-
tise and a vast network of resources,
in regard to business preparedness.
The broad range of Red Cross train-
ings include:
• Business readiness evaluation;
• Writing effective emergency
plans and protocols;
• Leading hazard vulnerability
assessments;
• Customized hazard and safety
trainings;
• Response and treatment: stop the
bleeding, hands-only CPR, first aid/
CPR/AED;
• Active threats: run, hide, fight;
and
• Disaster training and exercise
observation/analysis.
The Red Cross is offering active
threat and stop-the-bleeding train-
ing sessions free to businesses and
nonprofit organizations of all sizes.
This training will prepare organiza-
tions to recognize when an event
is happening, teach steps to help
prepare workers to respond, and
includes basic training on first aid
and bleeding control. More informa-
tion on this program can be found
on the Save a Life Denver website,
We all say that people are our
greatest assets, that we give back to
our communities and that we value
our relationships. We have the plat-
form to make a huge difference, and
it is time to leverage it. ▲
Decker