The five-days-a-week, nine-to-five office building is gone, and it isn’t coming back in the form HVAC schedules were designed around. Hybrid work has pulled occupancy loose from the calendar — and the heating and cooling systems...
Billing
After-Hours HVAC and Building Performance Standards (LL97, BERDO, BEPS)
For years, building energy rules meant benchmarking — measure your consumption, report it, move on. That era is ending. Building Performance Standards (BPS) go a step further: they set hard limits on a building’s energy or...
After-Hours HVAC and Green Leases: Aligning Cost Recovery with Sustainability
A green lease can run to dozens of clauses on retrofits, fit-outs, submetering and data sharing — and tucked among them is a short paragraph on after-hours HVAC that most people skim past. They shouldn’t. That clause is one of...
How to Bill Tenants for After-Hours HVAC: 5 Methods Compared
Once you’ve decided to charge tenants for after-hours HVAC, the next question is how — and the billing model you pick shapes everything that follows: how fair the charge feels, how much admin it creates, how many disputes you field, and how well you actually recover...