Although commercial and institutional buildings vary greatly from one to another in size, use, and type of construction, there are general recommendations for creating energy-efficient commercial buildings in a hot and humid climate.
A one page factsheet highlighting the updates the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will make to commercial building tax credits
U.S. Department of Energy webpage on strategic energy management and retro-commissioning of commercial buildings
State and local governments seeking to fund their Building Performance Standards programming and support building owners and operators with compliance need to understand the funding opportunities available to support this effort. The DOE has a list of funding streams to help with a variety of tasks related to BPS, from technical assistance to building upgrades themselves.
This Life-Cycle Energy Performance Framework for Cities provides policymakers a tool to look across building codes, incentive and utility programs, and post-occupancy/operations policies, to identify potential policies and triggers that can be deployed to impact building energy use.
an essential reference guide developed from the real-world experience of cities at the forefront of advanced building policy. It breaks down both the basics and the intricacies of BPS for existing buildings and how to engage community throughout the process, from establishing goals to implementing policy.
This tool assesses the energy efficiency of a building’s physical systems and produces an Energy Asset Score report.
ComStock and ResStock are building stock-level diagnostic tools. States, municipalities, utilities and manufacturers can use them to identify high-impact improvements and make better program decisions.
This tool is a central database for city BPS data that merges information from Portfolio Manager, Audit Template, and other city datasets in one place.
The BETTER tool identifies cost-saving energy and emissions reductions in buildings and portfolios without site visits or complex modeling.