Higher Education

The first two years of this study involved the collection of data from 121 lab buildings from seven academic institutions in the Boston area, including building energy use data for calendar years 2014 and 2015; the Year 1 and Year 2 reports are available on this website. In this third and final year of the

This addendum aims to provide more detailed guidance to institutions considering how to conduct emissions impact analyses associated with procurement decisions.

This report supplements our Boston Area Laboratory Energy Benchmarking Study, which analyzed energy consumption data for calendar year 2014 from a sample of 121 academic lab buildings in the Boston area. In this new work, calendar year 2015 energy usage data were obtained for the same set of buildings. The goal of this exercise was two-fold: