City Energy Project: Tips for Working with the Media
This guide details the elements of a good energy story and provides tips on getting in contact with the media.
Policy
As a trusted, nonpartisan advisor for local, regional, state, and federal policymakers, IMT continuously facilitates collaboration between public and private sector stakeholders to drive demand for high-performance buildings that unleash a variety of environmental, economic, and social benefits for cities across the U.S.
Interested in learning more IMT’s work with cities to drive market demand for efficiency and high-performance buildings? Check out our blogs and resources below.
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Putting Data to Work: Using Monthly Data From Benchmarking Programs
Insights for Better Buildings and More Effective City Programs This resource was developed as part of Putting Data to Work, a multi-year pilot project aimed at using building performance data and asset information to help efficiency program implementers better target their outreach to building owners and increase the number of projects executed within these programs. … Continued
City Energy Project: Establishing a Plan to Achieve Energy Code Compliance in Cities
This guide is designed to assist city leadership and their building departments in working together to implement an effective strategy to achieve high levels of energy code compliance for new and renovated buildings.
City Energy Project: Code Compliance in Cities: Assessing Progress and Identifying Improvements
This fact sheet highlights the benefits of performing a code compliance assessment, as well as describes the four-phases of the assessment methodology for code compliance.
City Energy Project: Assessment Methodology for Code Compliance in Medium and Large Cities (Data Collection Forms)
These data collection forms can be used in support of the Assessment Methodology for Code Compliance in Medium to Large Cities guide, and are intended for use by evaluators to gather the appropriate information on energy code compliance.
City Energy Project: Assessment Methodology for Code Compliance in Medium to Large Cities
This guide is a plug-and-play methodology designed for cities to evaluate the process of building practices through the lens of code compliance.
It Is Time to Act
Now is the time to act differently and at a pace at which we have not acted before.
How Cities and Utilities Can Form Partnership Agreements to Accelerate Climate Action
Partnerships are powerful. From multinational climate change efforts down to neighborhood recycling and composting initiatives, combining skills and capacity makes any undertaking more manageable. For cities looking to take meaningful climate action, partnering with their utilities is a smart strategy. Take the city of Denver, Colorado for example. Denver recently entered into a formal partnership with … Continued
Using City-Utility Partnership Agreements to Achieve Climate and Energy Goals
The report helps cities and utilities evaluate partnership agreements to meet climate and energy goals.
City Energy Project: Communications Materials: Compliance Templates
This template toolkit provides the backbone documents for four key city-issued compliance communications.