Leveraging Federal Dollars for Community-Centered Building Decarbonization
Jessica Miller and Maddie Koolbeck explain how IMT will use historic federal funding to co-create building decarb policies with community
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Working with a Community Accountability Board to Co-Design Equitable Building Performance Standards
When implementing a building performance standard (BPS), jurisdictions must prioritize community collaboration and ownership. A Community Accountability Board (CAB) works with policymakers and administrators to review a BPS’ impact on frontline and fenceline communities. These are communities that experience the most immediate and worst impacts of climate change and are most often communities of color, … Continued
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).
Mapping US Policy on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
This report informs EU audiences on the status of recovery measures in the U.S. that can move the country towards meeting its climate commitments
The Urgency of Addressing Indoor Health in Building Performance Policy
Why and how IMT’s first social priority brief addresses indoor health
Building Performance is About More than Energy
Building performance policies can advance social priorities like affordable housing, stakeholder inclusion and equity in energy costs.
Understanding the Housing Affordability Risk Posed by Building Performance Policies
This paper hopes to help jurisdictions design policies and budget for programs to enable affordable housing to benefit from building performance standards.
Balancing Act: Making Buildings Better while Keeping Housing Affordable
Local governments are adopting ambitious building performance policies to achieve climate goals, but how can they preserve housing affordability?
St. Louis Passes First Building Performance Standard in the Midwest
On April 20, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen voted to adopt the Midwest’s first Building Energy Performance Standard bill and the fourth such law in the nation.