Optimizing Energy Strategy for a Leading Food and Beverage Manufacturer
Foresight recently helped a client save $883,000 over 3 years for a 791% ROI on the project. Here’s a look at the impact of our comprehensive approach.
Strategies for Meeting Your Decarbonization Goals
It’s one thing to set aspirational decarbonization goals, but it’s a whole other challenge to create a data-backed strategy to achieve them. In this webinar, Mike, Danny, and Mitchell break down how to assess the potential impact of projects, create an ROI-driven project hierarchy, and explore emerging technologies for decarbonization.
Sustainability Success Stories: Showing Up with Transparency in a Notoriously Opaque Industry
We always take a transparent, data-focused approach, and we show our work along the way. Rather than telling you to just do whatever we say, we'd rather empower you to make the best decision through trustworthy data and guided by our knowledge of sustainability best practices.
Sustainability Success Stories: An ROI-Driven Approach that Your Finance Team Will Love
Finances folks want to do good for the environment, but their role indexes on the dollars and cents. With an ROI-driven partner like Foresight, you can be assured you're taking the most financially frugal and sustainably sound approach to your journey.
Investing in Healthy Buildings: An Accelerator for Human Capital, ESG Excellence, and Organizational Success
Healthy buildings are more than just passive physical structures; they are crucial partners that drive a company's growth and innovation, actively cultivating environments that promote both human and environmental well-being.
Understanding Scope 1, 2, & 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Pressure for carbon reporting is mounting from investors, policymakers, and consumers. But you may be wondering: What is your responsibility to report?
Hear it from a Client: Transitioning to Renewable Energy
Perrigo aims to use fully renewable energy globally by 2026. Here's how.
Hear it from a Client: Energy Efficiency for Global Decarbonization
Perrigo has a long history of doing energy efficiency projects that have decreased their carbon footprint and increased profitability.
Facilities: Embodied vs. Operational Carbon
Identifying ways to decrease carbon related with constructing and operating buildings isn’t only recommended; it's critical. Here’s a look at the two types of carbon associated with buildings.
The Difference Between Product & Corporate Carbon
As the world continues to grapple with the challenges of climate change, it has become increasingly important for companies to measure and reduce their carbon footprints. Two terms that are often used in this context are product carbon and corporate carbon. While they may sound similar, they refer to different things and require different approaches to address them.
Hear it from a Client: Sustainability for Cost-Savings
Shape shares the most meaningful facility projects and impactful operational changes.
GHG Emissions: How Do You Reduce Scope 1 & 2?
Three Foresight experts demystify critical terminology around greenhouse gas emissions and unpack how to get started collecting, evaluating, disclosing, and reducing your emissions.
Resiliency Over Efficiency
Every Friday morning, we have an all-team meeting that includes 15 mins of learning. "Learning" is a broad term that applies to personal topics of interest, local nonprofits telling us about their work, new sustainability start-ups, and Ted Talks we thought people might enjoy.
Reducing the Carbon Impact of Existing Buildings
Learn how to reduce the operational carbon of your existing building by improving efficiencies and the building envelope.
4 Reasons Why You Need an Energy Management System
Every organization, regardless of industry or size, uses energy in one form or another. For decades, utility invoices were another bill to be paid and forgotten about, but as markets shift and evolve, energy consumption is becoming a vital metric to understand and track. We outline 4 reasons your organization should consider adopting an Energy Management System (EMS). Before we discuss that, though, what is an EMS?
Better Indoor Environmental Quality by Doing Easy Things (Not Buying New Things)
As a result of COVID increasing our attention towards global health, we've heard a lot about improving Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), despite not having new standards and little new technology for IEQ. At a recent ASHRAE conference, I listened to a keynote presentation in which the presenter said, “If we just maintained our buildings as they should be maintained, we'd see a dramatic improvement in IEQ.”
Do Code-Mandated Lighting Controls Help Us?
While I'm not an expert in lighting controls, I interact with them frequently as a part of our commissioning work. Throughout my many years of designing and troubleshooting buildings' functionality, I have repeatedly inquired about the commissioning of lighting controls. Way back, the “only” lighting system was daylighting; candles didn't work all that well for many activities. The only “controls” were drapes and shades.
The Surprising History of Light
Did you ever get yelled at by your parents to "Turn the lights OFF!" when you were a kid? I did. As an energy engineer as an adult, I wish I could have shown my kid-self the calculations on how much it really costs to leave the lights on.
Fall: The Best Time to Think About Energy
Autumn is here. As the weather cools off and the days get shorter, the first thing I think of is our culture’s obsession with pumpkin spice. These days it seems like everything is pumpkin spice flavored – whiskey, cheerios, and even English muffins (I’m not joking). If there is one thing I wish more people thought of in the fall, it’s energy. Who are we kidding - if you read enough of these blogs, you’ll find all I think about is energy.
What is Happening in the Energy Markets?
If 2020 was the year of hearing people talk about COVID19 constantly, 2021 is the year people are talking about inflation and the supply chain. It is hard to go through a day without hearing someone talk about supply chain issues or inflation. Unfortunately, the natural gas and electricity markets are suffering from price inflation as well.