Public Comments Critical for the Residential Energy Code
Make your voice heard! Provide feedback on the proposed 2024 IECC by December 16, 2022 at midnight PST. Everyone is affected by and benefits from an updated residential energy code.
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High-Performance Building Hubs Support Professionals Navigating Codes and BPS
Market supports are critical for the building industry as jurisdictions implement new energy and carbon reduction targets. Ella Wetlesen and Cherylyn Kelley explore how High-Performance Building Hubs can be invaluable technical and compliance resources for codes experts.
Partner Spotlight: Corporate Sustainability Services
IMT partners with organizations of all shapes and sizes in its quest to transform the places where we collectively live, work, and play into restorative, healthy, resilient, and sustainable spaces. Our goal is to collectively drive greater demand for better buildings and to co-create and deploy the solutions that fulfill that demand. Corporate Sustainability Strategies … Continued
Office Tenants Could Be Liable for a Building’s Carbon Footprint
Cliff Majersik recently chatted with BRINK about the Inflation Reduction Act, BPS, and commercial building tenants.
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.
How the Federal Government Can Reduce Home Energy Costs
The White House and the federal agencies can lower residential energy costs by adopting the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code.
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
What the Inflation Reduction Act Does and Doesn’t Do for Climate and Equity
Alex Dews and Cliff Majersik offer their take on how the Inflation Reduction Act will affect climate change, equity, and environmental justice
People Behind the Policy: Vancouver’s BPS
Q&A with the City’s Green Buildings Team IMT’s Manager for Policy Design and Implementation, Benjamin Silverman, collaborated with Sr. Green Building Planners Gurmeet Ghera and Micah Lang from the City of Vancouver’s Green Buildings Team, Sustainability Group, on their policy development efforts. Gurmeet and Micah answered some of our questions about the new Annual Greenhouse … Continued