A BEHAVIORAL APPROACH

Military facility energy efficiency often underperforms due to people's choices and actions. It is hard to save energy with high-performance windows if they are open while the heat is on. There have been a few documented attempts to address the behavior side of energy use in the military, but these studies focused primarily on building occupant with short-term savings of 1 to 17 percent. To address this often-overlooked aspect, ERDC-CERL, developed strategy and tools for energy culture change, including culture change, including culture assessment methods; a culture enhancement methodology; best practices in energy behavior; collected wisdom on tactics to support facility stakeholder; identification of applicable policy; and a distilled literature search.