What defines a building performance standard (BPS)?
Learn how BPS complements traditional building energy code approaches, but works quite differently.
Building Performance Standards (BPS)
This collection of resources combines all of IMT's existing guidance on building performance standards.
The Latest
Better Buildings for Everyone: Understanding Legal Pathways for Building Performance and Decarbonization
This webinar features Daniel Carpenter-Gold, Jamie Long, and Dani Replogle of the Public Health Law Center speaking about available pathways for jurisdictions to pursue building electrification and decarbonization.
Better Buildings for Everyone: How Federal Funding Can Support BPS Planning & Implementation
This webinar lays out how jurisdictions and communities can access federal funds to plan for and implement policies and programs that support retrofitting buildings as well as to help pay for retrofits themselves.
Better Buildings for Everyone: How High-Performance Building Hubs Catalyze Action
Hear from five High-Performance Building Hubs about how they are providing unique and localized support to their building industry to accomplish citywide climate goals.
Better Buildings for Everyone: Implementing Building Performance Standards (BPS)
This first webinar in the series provides details on best practices for BPS, including how to set equitable and inclusive policy that will lead to successful implementation.
Building Performance Standards: A Technical Resource Guide
IMT contributed to ASHRAE’s technical resource guide on building performance standards.
Building Performance Hubs Guidance Document
Building energy use is critical to climate action, and building performance hubs can help accelerate the transition to high-performing buildings. This guidance document, created by the Building Energy Exchange in New York and the Institute for Market Transformation as part of the Building Performance Partnership, provides guidance on creating a building performance hub.
Map: National BPS Coalition Participating Jurisdictions
Participating jurisdictions are committed to passing a building performance policy.
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
Community Accountability Board Infographic
Community-centered policymaking requires active engagement with residents long after a policy has been passed. A Community Accountability Board is a useful example for jurisdictions considering a building performance standard.