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How-To Guides

The IFMA Foundation, with support from IFMA’s Sustainability Committee, is producing a series of white papers to provide data and information associated with a wide range of subjects related to sustainability.
These guides are currently available on the IFMA Foundation website:

Getting Started

The detailed findings in this Getting Started Guide include a step-by-step process for assessing your organization, finding your starting point, identifying initiatives, evaluating their value, and implementing, measuring and monitoring their effectiveness.

Carbon Footprint

This guide defines carbon footprint and provides facility managers with the tools needed to understand the process, analyze the results and plan for the future.

US Government Policy Impacts and Opportunities for Facility Management

This guide is for facility managers who want to develop and implement a strategic sustainability performance plan for their facilities while benefiting from the best-in-class tools, resources, benchmark information and support developed by the U.S. federal government and state governments.

Commisioning Existing Buildings

This guide provides practical guidance from a commissioning expert about what commissioning is and how to complete the commissioning process for a building or campus of buildings.

Global Green Cleaning

This guide integrates each of the building blocks of a cleaning structure, ranging from the most basic to the most robust and comprehensive.

Data Centers

This guide provides direction to facility managers and other site infrastructure personnel seeking to reduce data center energy costs by making existing facilities more energy efficient.

Green Building Rating Systems

This guide provides realistic data, including costs and benefits of the systems, allowing the reader to make educated sustainability decisions.

Landscaping

This guide helps facility managers better understand and apply sustainable landscaping practices.

Water

This guide reviews the basics of water use and disposal in commercial buildings.

Lighting

This guide explains the benefits of investigating and upgrading lighting systems in and around facilities.

No Cost/Low Cost

This guide provides facility personnel with a practical document that will provide the resources to initiate no-cost/low-cost energy-efficiency measures at their sites.

Food Service

This guide provides practical, real-world guidance on how to introduce and advance sustainable practices within the food service environment.

EPA’s Energy Star Portfolio Manager

This guide goes step by step through the Environmental Protection Agency’s online tool, ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager.

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