Building Performance Standard Resource Library
The Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) compiled this collection of publicly available resources on building performance standards (BPS) from local, state, and federal governments as well as nonprofit organizations leading the field.
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Coordination with other policies & programs Utility support
Fact sheet that describes technical considerations that utilities must work through to successfully compile and deliver aggregate whole-building data.
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Policy development Policy implementation Policy compliance Policy parameters Target setting Implementation needs
This report provides information to supplement ASHRAE 100. It is intended to be used with ASHRAE Standard 100 and contains guidance for any location that may implement ASHRAE Standard 100. It is aimed at supporting Washington state and British Columbia in particular.
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Policy development Policy implementation Outreach & engagement Coordination with other policies & programs Building list & stock analysis Benchmarking
The document provides information about benchmarking and transparency policies, describes key considerations for success, and demonstrates how government leaders have used benchmarking to help enact a BPS.
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Policy development Policy implementation Building list & stock analysis Policy parameters
The report describes the varied roles that state and local decision makers have in establishing existing building policies and describes how they can coordinate across jurisdictions to help achieve their energy and environmental goals.
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Policy development Coordination with other policies & programs Impacts Benchmarking Utility support
This report examines ways to include demand flexibility in state and local building policies and programs, such as benchmarking and transparency, ratings and labeling, and building performance standards.
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Coordination with other policies & programs Utility support
The report describes the role that utilities play in providing available and accurate building energy data It also describes key items to consider for state and local officials when exploring data access solutions
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Coordination with other policies & programs Utility support
Fact sheet that offers sample policy language to support utility data access.
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Policy development Costs Impacts Policy parameters Target setting
This report provides details on the study conducted for City of Boston to inform BPS targets and understand cost and savings impacts from a BPS. It includes the analysis approach and results from the analysis.
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Policy development Alternative compliance Building list & stock analysis Policy parameters
The paper explores the federal building stock and provides various BPS design options for the existing federal building stock.
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Policy development Policy implementation Outreach & engagement Incentives & finance Building list & stock analysis Policy parameters Implementation needs Stakeholder engagement
The guide walks through the process of BPS preparation, policy design, and implementation. It includes recommendations of how to complete each main step, and integrate equity in the policy.
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Policy development Building list & stock analysis Policy parameters Target setting
A case study on the city of Seattle that covers different policy scenarios for existing multifamily and commercial buildings, and provides an estimate of the greenhouse gas emission reductions of each scenario.
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Policy development Coordination with other policies & programs Codes coordination Policy parameters Target setting
This provides an overview of BPS policies and items to consider in adoption of BPS. It covers possible metrics, performance data collection, enforcement, and alignment with building codes.
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Policy implementation Supportive programs
Short fact sheet on things to consider while developing a high-performance building energy hub
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Policy development Policy parameters
The brief explains how a BPS can encourage electrification along with reduced energy use
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Policy development Alternative compliance Costs Impacts Equity
The paper lays out a methodology for jurisdictions wishing to estimate the scale of problem by quantifying number of affordable MF buildigns and units, segmented by affordable housing categories. Its goal is to design policeis and budget for programs to enforce AH to benefit from BPS
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Policy development Alternative compliance Policy parameters Target setting
The report provides information on carbon and environmental markets and the links to design of BPS programs. It also provides an overview of how BPS overlaps with other existing energy policies and programs.
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Policy compliance Coordination with other policies & programs Incentives & finance Supportive programs Utility support
The paper explores how energy efficiency programs can support BPS and how utility programs and BPS can work together. It briefly discusses utility attribution at a high-level.
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Policy development Policy implementation Policy compliance Policy adoption Alternative compliance Costs Impacts Incentives & finance Building list & stock analysis Equity Policy parameters Target setting Utility support
The paper starts with an explanation of why building performance standards matter, summarizes past polices, emerging proposals, and key decision points in setting a policy.
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Policy development Costs Impacts Codes coordination Target setting
The report discusses how DC developed its BPS, with a focus on two data analysis projects conducted to measure the potentuial impact of the BPS, including its interaction with energy codes.
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Coordination with other policies & programs Incentives & finance
Topic brief exploring how efficiency programs can best support BPS policies and how city and state officials charged with implementing them can work with regulators so that these policies achieve their objectives of significant energy savings and greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
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Policy development Outreach & engagement Stakeholder engagement Supportive programs
This resource provides key takeaways on the development of LL97, combining insights from leaders representing building owners, tenants, trade associations, nonprofits, and the NY Green Bank. It also identifies next steps to creating productive, mutually beneficial relationships between landlords and tenants that will make compliance to the new legislation easier to achieve.
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Policy development Policy implementation Coordination with other policies & programs Impacts Policy parameters Target setting
Case study for Carbon Reduction Reporting Program in Tokyo, which functions similarly to a BPS.
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Coordination with other policies & programs Utility support
Opportunities for state utility regulators to enable, guide, or require utilities and localities to collect, share, and use customer energy data.
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Outreach & engagement Coordination with other policies & programs Stakeholder engagement Utility support
Thie report discusses how to engage stakeholders around data access and explains key interests and potential roles of different stakeholders. The guide provides recommendations on how to facilitate engagement to improve data access.
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Policy implementation Policy compliance Software & tools Implementation needs
Central database for building-related information. Supports implementation and tracking of building data
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