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Project: 2010 BetterBricks Market Progress Evaluation Report
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
In 2010, Research Into Action's team conducted a Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance's (NEEA) commercial-sector initiative, BetterBricks. NEEA launched BetterBricks in 2003 as a multifaceted effort to change design and construction practices in commercial buildings throughout the Pacific Northwest. BetterBricks targeted the school, grocery, commercial real estate, and hospital segments, as well as service providers, including: architects, engineers, lighting designers, refrigeration contractors, mechanical contractors, and controls contractors. This was our fifth BetterBricks evaluation. In 2010, NEEA decided to reconfigure its commercial market transformation initiatives and sought an MPER of BetterBricks that would address the following: 1) To what degree had the BetterBricks target markets of hospitals, commercial real estate, design and construction, and building operations services changed per their market progress indicators? 2) What are the 2010 baseline business practices for NEEA’s redesigned Commercial Sector Initiative? NEEA also asked our team to validate recent energy savings for specific sites and develop information to inform per-unit savings assumptions in the commercial-sector ACE models.