Practical Decarbonization: UC Irvine’s Three-Decade Journey to a Smarter, Greener Campus

2025-11-28T13:49:13+00:00Categories: Analytics, Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Master Systems Integration, Sustainability|Tags: , , , |

Overview At the 2025 IDEA Campus Energy Conference in Boston, we joined leaders from across the campus energy spectrum, taking to the stage with our long-time client UC Irvine (UCI), and our professional partners Black & Veatch, to share an in-depth look at UCI’s long-term, practical approach to decarbonization. Our presentation—“Practical Decarbonization: UC Irvine’s Three-Decade Journey”—offered a rare, honest [...]

Driving Decarbonization with Life-Cycle Assessment: Insights from Altura’s Webinar on Cerclos’ eTool (Video)

2025-11-28T13:49:26+00:00Categories: Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, News and Information, Sustainability|

As the building industry increasingly focuses on sustainability, the importance of decarbonization in the design and construction process has become paramount. In our recent webinar with Cerclos, we offered an in-depth exploration of how to effectively approach decarbonization for large campus building projects. We share insights not only addressing the technicalities of carbon reduction, but also how to [...]

Strategies for Making Existing Buildings More Energy Efficient (Video)

2025-11-28T13:52:42+00:00Categories: Analytics, Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Master Systems Integration, News and Information, Performance Delivery, Sustainability|

Maximizing existing building energy performance with real-time data Fresh off an incredible experience at #Verge2023, one of Altura's principals and environmental programs leader, Ryan Gaylord, engaged in a captivating conversation with our friend James Darius Ball at GreenBiz. They explored the current state of affairs in sustainable energy tactics and how Altura continues to approach decarbonization harnessing real-time data [...]

The Benefits of Implementing a Strategic Roadmap for Long-Term Decarbonization: PART 2

2025-11-28T13:49:37+00:00Categories: Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Sustainability|Tags: , , , , |

This is Part 2 of a 2-part series. Check out Part 1 here. Now that we have discussed the nuts and bolts of structuring a program-wide decarbonization roadmap at the enterprise level, it's time to talk about the good stuff: the benefits! So, how can these steps create real-world benefits for an organization? Let's explore the benefits of implementing [...]

The Benefits of Implementing a Strategic Roadmap for Long-Term Decarbonization: PART 1

2025-11-28T13:49:44+00:00Categories: Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Sustainability|Tags: , , , , |

In the global effort to tackle climate change, companies in every industry are setting ambitious goals to slash or eliminate their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the next few decades. But even the everyday decisions being made now, like swapping out an old building HVAC system with similar like-for-like equipment, can throw a wrench into a company's plans to [...]

Lessons Learned from Nationwide EV Charger Rollout

2025-11-28T13:51:18+00:00Categories: Corporate Sustainability, Sustainability|

U.S. electric vehicle (EV) sales increased by roughly 80% in 2018 as consumer demands continued to shift from internal combustion engines to EVs, which offer increased performance, cutting edge technology, and lower carbon emissions and maintenance requirements. As the number of EVs on the road increases, the public and private sectors are responding by deploying charging stations to meet [...]

How to achieve 93% water savings

2025-10-31T00:56:46+00:00Categories: Sustainability|

With Governor Brown’s recent announcement of emergency actions to reduce water use, water saving in California is on everyone’s mind. One of the most effective ways to save water is through identifying and retrofitting water-consuming process loads. Altura worked with a hospital client to audit the energy and water use of their sterilization facility.  We installed power and water [...]

Broadcom’s Corporate Social Responsibility

2025-10-31T00:35:50+00:00Categories: Corporate Sustainability, Sustainability|

Altura would like to congratulate Broadcom Corporation on yet another stellar corporate sustainability achievement.  In its US 500 Greenest Companies list, Newsweek recently ranked Broadcom 80th out of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the US for sustainability performance. This puts Broadcom in the top 16th percentile of major companies for its focused efforts to reduce energy, water, [...]

Would you invest $1 to get $3 back in less than a year? We thought so.

2025-10-31T00:50:03+00:00Categories: Energy Efficiency, Sustainability|

To all building owners and property managers out there: while a 3:1 return on investment might sound too good to be true, that is exactly the proposition you could be faced with when considering implementing an energy efficiency program for your facility.  Pursuing a program to evaluate and tune-up your building’s energy-consuming systems can yield a surprisingly high return [...]

Will the Big Data Phenomenon Help or Hurt the Evolution of Sustainability?

2025-10-31T00:49:45+00:00Categories: Sustainability|

Recent talk about Big Data and Smart Buildings has me reflecting on how sustainable development and green building principles have evolved over the past 20 years, and I’ve become increasingly concerned that sustainability professionals will pay too little attention to lessons learned from past mistakes as we dive deeper into a growing sea of data on energy use and [...]

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