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Did you know…

Buildings account for more than 75% of electricity use

Buildings account for more than a third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions

People of color spend between 20% and 45% more than white counterparts on energy bills

The buildings that make up our homes, businesses, and community spaces are at the center of our lives. They affect our health, our wallets, and our ability to stay resilient against the impacts of extreme weather.

Our Strategy

Our work:

facilitates community and business engagement with building policy
reduces overall energy use
accelerates real estate market transformation to high-performance buildings
supports local efforts to advocate for safe, affordable housing
promotes electrification and clean energy

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Impact Stories

State of Colorado

Through the Building Performance Partnership , IMT is supporting the Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE) with the launch of its high-performance building hub work across Aspen and surrounding resort mountain communities in Colorado. The hub will work to equitably and efficiently decarbonize the built environment in this region. It will assist key stakeholders—including real estate professionals, developers, construction tradespeople, and government planning/development staff—in navigating and complying with benchmarking and state-level building performance policies. By providing this support, the hub is facilitating the transition to high-performance, low-carbon buildings.

Chicago

Chicago, IL

In Chicago, we’re involved in several initiatives focused on better buildings and community engagement. We partner with the City’s Department of Environment, and People for Community Recovery on a Community Climate Shift project. We also collaborate with the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition to advance building decarbonization and healthy buildings at the city and state level. IMT will scale lessons learned to other U.S. cities and states.

New Orleans

New Orleans, LA

New Orleans is a key participant in IMT’s work on Community Climate Shift. This project facilitates collaborative relationships and shared goals between state/local governments and community members to develop equitable building performance policies and supporting programs. To carry out this work in New Orleans, IMT partners with two key organizations: the City’s Office of Resilience and Sustainability and the Alliance for Affordable Energy, a community-based organization. We also provide targeted support to the Office of Resilience and Sustainability on their proposed benchmarking ordinance. This includes real estate engagement, policy development, and implementation assistance to ensure building performance policies and programs are developed with meaningful community input and equitable outcomes in mind.

Washington, DC

IMT’s Building Innovation Hub, alongside the DC Department of Energy and Environment, creates many resources for the building industry in the DC region. One of these is the Capital Region Green Building Careers Map, developed in partnership with Julius Education. The map showcases the wide scope of the green buildings sector, highlights critical occupations, and demonstrates the numerous career advancement paths between different jobs and industry sectors. By providing this comprehensive careers resource, the Building Innovation Hub aims to grow and strengthen the pipeline of talent entering the building performance field in the DC region.

State of Missouri

In Missouri, IMT has been working to advance equitable building performance policies and programs. We do this by fostering collaborative relationships and shared goals between state and local governments, community members, and key stakeholders. In St. Louis, we partner with the City’s Building Division, Office of Building Performance, and the Community Builders Network. In Kansas City, we work alongside Kansas City government stakeholders and our community-based organization partner, Bridging The Gap, to drive community-centered, sustainable building practices.