11 Surprising Ways that Your Building Wastes Energy

This article from building.com shows 11 Surprising Ways that Your Building Wastes Energy.

There are some particularly good hints here. From our own experiences, the first point about powering down computers at the end of each day has been big. With that step alone, we have sometimes realized as much as a 20-25% reduction in our weekend electricity consumption on Sundays when no teachers are around. WARNING: Many people in the habit of walking out of their rooms at the end of the day oblivious to any electronics still powered up are notoriously difficult to reorient. While most faculty have immediately changed their habits, a persistent few continue to leave several items powered up at the end of every day. Bad habits are hard to break.