Based on the bottom paragraphs, what are the weaknesses and strengths of this sub-project?

Sup-project is Developing a longer-term plan, with schedule and budget, for more significant investments in building improvements, considering the work completed and understanding gained in the other sub-projects. The client tentatively established a budget of $80,000 for this project.

Other sub-projects:

1. Engaging with tenants to understand their needs, wants, ideas, and willingness to pay while identifying and training Green Team tenant representatives, and providing education and outreach to the client population. The client intends that Green Team representatives from each tenant will act as liaisons on sustainability issues (see quick wins and utility bills/procurement.) The client tentatively established a budget of $25,000 for this sub-project.
2. Identifying and completing some quick wins to reduce costs and ideally improve tenant relationships (office recycling, plug load control, thermostat control, perhaps office recycling, etc.). For each quick win to be implemented, the associated logistics, facility space issues, and administrative issues will need to be addressed. The client tentatively established a budget of $40,000 for this sub-project.
3. Collecting and analyzing necessary data to benchmark the buildings energy use, evaluate water consumption rates, and understand waste generation rates and types. Collected data will need to be analyzed and evaluated to identify whether opportunities exist for improvement. The client tentatively established a budget of $30,000 for this sub-project.
4. Providing the opportunity for tenants to receive individualized utility bills and individually be billed for renewable energy sources. The associated logistics, facility management issues, and administrative issues will need to be addressed. The client tentatively established a budget of $25,000 for this sub-project.

Your client owns a commercial office commercial building built in the mid-1980s in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. The building is 8 stories high and has a total square footage of 35,000 square feet. It has 11 different tenants and is set up for occupancy of approximately 200 to 250 people if fully occupied. The tenants on floors 2 through 8 are primarily office workers with no manufacturing tenants, while the first floor has retail use as well. The second floor has shared meeting spaces for use by tenants and their guests. The first and second floors are partially open to the public, while access to the upper floors is restricted. There is underground parking offered for tenant employees. The building does not offer to recycle or composting services for its tenants. The building has somewhat spacious grounds containing a mix of sidewalks, a small outside pavilion, and relatively large areas of irrigated turf grass. Your client pays what they believe to be overly high energy and water bills, which costs are then distributed among the tenants based on square footage. The client hopes that energy and water use can be decreased with some relatively simple changes initially, with further reductions available with more significant improvements. Similarly, the client pays for consolidated waste management services, which costs are distributed among the tenants on a square footage basis. Your client is aware that the state of Colorado has passed commercial building benchmarking requirements for buildings of over 50,000 square feet and that neighboring Denver and several other Colorado cities require building benchmarking for buildings over 25,000 square feet. The current state standard does not contain energy use intensity (EUI) standards, but EUI standards will be adopted in 2023. Denvers city ordinances already contain EUI standards. The client is expecting that the state of Colorado will eventually expand the benchmarking requirement to include commercial buildings of similar size to theirs (those > 25,000 sf) and that associated EUI standards will soon follow. While Colorado doesnt require commercial buildings to provide recycling and/or composting services, Denver recently followed Boulders and other cities lead and passed an ordinance in 2022 that requires commercial entities to provide recycling services. The client says they see the writing on the wall regarding what might come on a statewide level regarding potential required changes in commercial waste management. Your client has been losing tenants. Tenants want to move to newer office buildings that offer amenities more desirable to the tenants employees. Some tenants are more environmentally conscious than others and would like to have their energy and water use individually metered such that they only pay their respective portions; these tenants would also like the option of paying for renewable energy supply and dont want to pay for outdoor water use. Similarly, some tenants would like the building to provide recycling and composting waste services and believe theyre paying too much for other tenants larger waste disposal needs. Some tenants have expressed distaste for the amount of water they believe is being used to irrigate the turf grass. The client has been talking with tenants, friends, and business associates, as well as reading up on sustainability. They are excited about renovating to have a more sustainable building, and they have so many ideas! Conversations with the client are filled with discussion of these ideas, which range from how to incentivize tenant sustainable behaviors (green team, contests, presentations from experts, movies, tours, get-togethers, etc.), to building and grounds improvements (green roofs, window replacement, cool roofs, insulation, lighting, plug-load control, low-water fixtures, turf replacement, native low-water plantings, on-site stormwater management, etc.), to installation or purchase of renewable energy options (on-site solar panels, micro wind turbines, community solar, etc.); to suggestions of innovative technologies (smart metering, paperless offices, greywater reuse, on-site stormwater re-use, etc.) At the same time, the client is very concerned about what might be financially viable and has asked for help in organizing, evaluating, ranking, and managing these ideas. After much discussion, you believe that youve reached an agreement on the following charter components. The client has the goals of:

reducing energy, waste, and water use and associated costs via improving building performance;

improving relations with tenants, retaining tenants, and marketing to new tenants; and

understanding their options for longer-term actions that address more costly building improvements and creating a plan to do so;

planning and preparing for the eventuality of increased regulatory requirements regarding benchmarking, energy use intensity, and waste reduction.