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Example States and State Governments

Colorado’s HB 1286 (2021)

This bill requires owners of certain large buildings to collect and report to the Colorado energy office the covered building’s energy use. On or before June 1, 2027, a covered building owner demonstr...
Resource Executive Branch

National Building Performance Standard Coalition

The National Building Performance Standards Coalition comprises a nationwide group of state and local governments that have committed to inclusively design and implement building performance policies ...
Example Local Governments

Seattle’s Building Emissions Performance Standard

Under Seattle’s BEPS, signed into law in December 2023, all existing commercial and multifamily residential buildings over 20,000 square feet will need to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Compliance ...
Example Local Governments

DC’s Building Energy Performance Standard (2018)

DC’s Building Energy Performance Standards were set forth in Title III of the Clean Energy DC Omnibus Act of 2018. The Act states that, starting in 2021, owners of buildings over 50,000 square feet th...
Example Local Governments

New York City’s Climate Mobilization Act (2019)

New York City’s Climate Mobilization Act is an umbrella term for a set of laws, including Local Laws 92 and 94 (established through Int. 0276 and Int. 1032), which require certain existing building ro...
Example Local Governments

St. Louis’ Building Energy Performance Standard (2020)

St. Louis’ BEPS will require large commercial, multi-family, institutional, and municipal buildings (50,000 sq. ft. and above) to reduce energy use in order to meet an energy performance standard by M...
Example States and State Governments

Washington’s Clean Buildings Act (2019)

Washington’s Clean Buildings Act (2019) requires the State Commerce Department to set a state energy performance standard target (measured in Energy Use Intensity, or EUI) for each building type by 20...
Example Local Governments

Evanston IL Healthy Buildings Ordinance

The City of Evanston, Illinois, is the first government to pass a Building Performance Standard in 2025. The HBO will cover commercial and multifamily buildings over 20,000 square feet, condominiums o...
Resource States and State Governments

ACEEE Report, Mandating Building Performance Standards

ACEEE’s 2020 report, Mandatory Building Performance Standards: A Key Policy for Achieving Climate Goals, makes the argument that policymakers need to adopt building performance standards to compel ene...
Example States and State Governments

Oregon’s Commercial Building Energy Performance Standard

As part of Oregon’s 2023 legislative climate package, the state advanced a commercial building energy performance standard. The standard would break the commercial sector down into two tiers with vari...
Resource States and State Governments

Report, Building Better Building Performance Standards

This 2022 comment from the Guarini Center on the Environment, Energy, and Land Use offers recommendations regarding the choice of metrics in Building Energy Performance Standards. Its recommendations ...
Resource States and State Governments

Report, Toward Tradeable Building Performance Standards

Toward Tradeable Building Performance Standards offers a qualified defense of emissions trading programs in general, and suggests that tradeable credits in Building Energy Performance Standard program...
Resource Local Governments

IMT Model Building Performance Standard Ordinance

The Institute for Market Transformation’s (IMT) model ordinance for a building performance standard (BPS) benefits from lessons learned from the four jurisdictions (District of Columbia, New York City...
Resource States and State Governments

RAP’s Building Modernization Legislative Toolkit

The Regulatory Assistance Project, with collaborators at RMI, ACEEE, IMT, ReSolve and New Buildings Institute (NBI), have prepared a 2023 Building Modernization Legislative Toolkit. The toolkit is mea...
Resource Executive Branch

Federal Building Performance Standards and Proposed New Building Rules

In December 2020, the CEQ and DOE announced complementary policies applying to new and existing federal buildings. For new or newly renovated federal buildings, DOE announced a new proposed rule to he...
Example Local Governments

Boulder’s SmartRegs Program

Boulder’s SmartRegs program is a 2010 building performance standard that requires all rental housing in the city to demonstrate that it is about as efficient as buildings built to the 1999 Energy Code...
Example Local Governments

Montgomery County’s Proposed BEPS (2021)

In July 2021, the Montgomery County, MD, Executive proposed new legislation (Bill 16-21) that will expand the number of buildings covered by the County’s Benchmarking Law and require the use of less e...