“This slowdown may be due to delayed federal sustainability mandates and the changing political climate,” the company says, noting that as a result, teams might “focus more on reduction initiatives that drive both cost and carbon savings rather than for compliance and reporting, slowing overall progress in the next few months and years to come.”
Data management is a key component for teams working to improve the sustainability of their buildings, because the data can point to where they can save time and money, according to the report. But teams might not be collecting the data in the most efficient way.
“What’s surprising, slash, not surprising, is seeing that a lot of this data collection is still really manual,” Lauren Scott, vice president of marketing and sustainability of the intelligent spaces group at Acuity Brands, parent of Atrius, said in an interview. “If we think of sustainability teams, we know a lot of them are really lean, and so they’re still relying on more of these traditional data-gathering opportunities.” READ MORE
by Joe Burns
Source: esgdive.com
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