When CI Works purchased real estate – we looked at building expenses and decided that we had to reduce our operating expenses and felt that it would be a plus to lower the building’s carbon footprint at the same time. We also realized that we now owned a 100+ year old building that looked like it came with lights invented at that time. There also existed the opportunity to improve the working and safety conditions for tenants and their employees. Only problem was – who on

Chapter 1: For starters, CI Works will be upgrading all of the lighting in the 11 Chestnut St. building we now own. All lighting with be upgraded to LED’s (or light emitting diodes). This technology has been around for years, but not all commercial building owners have taken advantage. The simple math at CI Works is annual electricity savings of $16,000. This begs the question – what owner would not want to have this benefit? I’m certain that many will be able to come up

Commercial building owners are often not either energy savings nor environmental sustainability focused types. They are just more short term profitability oriented…….or just dinosaurs. For the most part, they do not see capital investments in these initiatives or technologies as providing enough short term results or as primary to their business – hence avoidance rationale. If they can’t sell it, why should they care about it? Here is where more clarity, less conflicting m