People Behind the Policy: BPS Implementation Guide
How can jurisdictions and communities use the new BPS Implementation Guide to promote equitable building policies? IMT’s James and Zack answer!
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Roadmap for Creating Equitable and Effective Building Performance Standards
This roadmap graphic demonstrates how continuously engaging with community stakeholders can lead to transformative solutions for building performance policies.
Short Building Performance Standard Model Law
This resource establishes goals and an equitable process for crafting building performance standard rules to support energy-efficient, affordable, healthy buildings.
Building Performance Standard Implementation Guide
This guide outlines recommendations for developing and implementing an equitable building performance standard policy.
Why your lease can drive climate and social action
Switching to a green lease or performance-based lease advances ESG sustainability goals and can advance social responsibility goals related to equity and inclusion.
What are the Social Priority Briefs?
A video introduction outlining the creative, impactful policy toolkits that drive cities, counties, and states to address complex societal challenges in building performance standards (BPS).
Leveling Up Building Performance Regulations: ACEEE Summer Study Paper
Building Performance Standards are a powerful tool to improve energy efficiency and building performance, and they can advance community-centered, inclusive, equitable policymaking.
How Poder Latinx is Co-Developing BPS in Orlando
In Spring 2021, we began collaborating with Poder Latinx to explore how a BPS policy could be leveraged to address the priorities of the Latinx community in Orlando, Florida.
Massachusetts Adopts Statewide Building Benchmarking and Transparency Law
IMT insight into the buildings benchmarking portion of Massachusetts’ 2022 Climate and Clean Energy Bill
Vancouver Adopts First Building Performance Standard in Canada
New bylaw will be responsible for an estimated 20% carbon emissions reduction needed to meet City’s 2030 goals. On July 20, 2022 the Vancouver City Council adopted the 2022 Annual Greenhouse Gas and Energy Limits Bylaw. This bylaw will require larger commercial and multifamily buildings in Vancouver to submit a report annually on their energy … Continued