Green Home Builder, March/April 2017 Gaining Ground with Greener Affordable Housing (continued)
“Simple actions like turning off lights and lowering thermostats can produce cost-savings which our properties will use to improve on-premise security and fund increased police presence,” continues Mitchell. “Resident education helps our communities flourish and we’re pleased to acid this environmental component.”
This year, we hope to measure full building data across all properties, including consumption information from the utility companies that our residents pay directly. In the past, this undertaking would have been too time consuming, as we’d have to gather every utility bill each month. But with automation technology, measuring consumption is now a more achievable goal.
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