Commercial Building Partnerships
Commercial Building Partnerships is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored collaborative research project involving retailers, commercial real estate management companies, and a distribution facility provider. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) support this project by assisting the Commercial Building Partners as they work to reduce the energy use of their facilities. Here you will learn more about NREL's role in Commercial Building Partnerships (CBP) and about the companies participating.
This project is part of DOE's Net-Zero Energy Commercial Building Initiative. The purpose of CBP is to design and deploy easily replicable, energy-efficient, cost-effective commercial building designs for both new and existing buildings. NREL is working directly with private companies that have committed to meet certain levels of energy efficiency.
Learn more about:
The companies participating in CBP
The benefits of being part of CBP and project evaluation information
The key stages in the process.
Note: Commercial Building Partnerships used to be known as Commercial Building National Accounts. The U.S. Department of Energy changed the name to reflect the broadening scope of the effort and determined that “partnerships” better conveyed the collaborative spirit of this research. CBP will continue to be a group of private-sector companies working with DOE’s national laboratories to conduct cost-shared research, development, and deployment while constructing or retrofitting buildings that achieve significant, unprecedented energy savings.
