FROM THE EDITOR

Happy New Year! Whether or not you like to make personal and/or professional New Year’s resolutions, one thing almost everyone can agree on is the importance of goals. Setting goals, it seems to me, is a lot more productive than setting short-term resolutions, which, as we all know, don’t usually pan out.

So what are your high-performance goals for 2016? Improve your buildings’ Energy Star scores? Recertify at a higher level with LEED-EBOM? Complete a long-put-off project? Go full zero net energy?

Hey, you never know. One FM’s stretch goal is another’s softball. What’s important is that you and your staff set your goals, make them tough enough to push you but not too tough that you all throw up your hands two weeks in and give up.

I’d love to hear from you – please send me a quick note and share some of your 2016 high-performance building goals.

Cheers,

Greg Zimmerman, editor  

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