Performance Contracts

J. Wayne Reitz Union, Gainesville, Fla.

The University of Florida provided extensive upgrades to mechanical, water, and lighting systems using a energy savings contract and drastically improved efficiencies in its student union. They did so, and added 100,000 square feet of space, while keeping the existing building open to meet student needs.

Rocky Mountain Institute Innovation Center, Basalt, Colo.

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is a nonprofit dedicated to transforming global energy use to create a clean, prosperous, and secure low-carbon future. Therefore, when RMI needed a new office and convening center for 50 employees in the mountain community of Basalt, Colo., they seized the opportunity to practice what they preached with a state-of-the-art building that achieved an unprecedented level of integration, automation, and performance.

Stone34, Seattle

Guaranteeing the actual energy use of a newly constructed building with severe financial penalties on the line is a much more significant challenge — one that few teams pursue.

Federal Center South Building 1202: Seattle, WA

The new home of the Seattle district headquarters of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers represents a transformation both for the occupants who work in it and for the high performing building industry.

Henry County Public Schools, KY

Henry County Public Schools sought and found an alternative funding method: a guaranteed energy savings contract (or performance contract) as a funding mechanism for school improvements.