Playbooks

Overview

Playbooks are guides for building professionals who can influence energy efficiency in their building. Find the one that matches your role below. 

We built these playbooks in partnership with the Building Energy Exchange.

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Engineer's Playbook

Engineers and energy modelers are the technical experts who turn performance goals into reality. Your analytical thinking and leadership on building system design, construction, and operation are what get a project to its targets. You understand how building systems connect to each other, which is exactly why you need to be at the table early in the design process. 

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Building Owner's Playbook

Building owners make the call on every major building project, which puts you in the driver's seat for everyone downstream. Your approval, leadership, and allocation of resources — financial or human — are what actually make energy-efficient buildings happen in Illinois, and what shifts the industry's "business as usual." 

Energy efficiency, automation, electrification, and responsiveness to customer and investor demand for sustainability aren't a future trend — they're where buildings are headed now. To stay competitive, owners need to lead on high-performance buildings, not just support them.

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Property Manager's Playbook

Your building management team — property manager, facility manager, building engineer — is the front line for consistent energy-efficient results, through day-to-day operations, maintenance, and capital planning. 

That means your team needs to understand and respond to health and wellness concerns, resiliency, energy efficiency, and any goals your municipality has set.

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Contractor's Playbook

General contractors bring knowledge of construction costs, material availability, and trusted trade expertise to the design process. 

When contractors are part of the conversation early, building owners are more likely to hit both their performance targets and their budget. 

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Architect's Playbook

Architects are central to building healthy, high-performing buildings. You're usually the first discipline hired on a project, and often the one overseeing every other design consultant involved. That puts your leadership, guidance, and problem-solving right at the center of getting high-performance buildings built. 

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