building energy codes, benchmarking, building performance standards, BPS

To retrofit millions of large buildings for improved energy performance, lower energy costs, and lower emissions, a growing list of coastal states and cities like DC, Boston, New York City, and Seattle are adopting building performance standards. At the same time, municipalities are weaving climate risk reduction strategies into their local zoning codes, bracing for a future of increasingly extreme weather.

You’ve probably heard this before: you can’t manage what you don’t measure. But you might not have heard that Massachusetts is measuring energy use and emissions in buildings with two new projects that can help manage costs and emissions.