2026 Community Engagement Framework
IMT’s 2026 Community Engagement Framework includes guidance on how to effectively engage frontline communities in equitable decarbonization policymaking.
Social Priorities in Building Performance
This collection of resources provides guidance on how to include stakeholders in the BPS policy development process on topics such as housing affordability, resilience, and indoor air quality.
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Community Health Priorities and Building Performance Policies
This document can serve as a starting point for both governments and advocates to craft decarbonization policies that center community priorities, and for insights on how to collaborate across sectors and interest groups.
Tenants at the Center: An Equitable Path to Building Decarbonization
Case studies and policy recommendations that focus on passing strong tenant protections to prevent rent increases and displacement stemming from building decarbonization efforts.
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).
Leveling Up Building Performance Regulations: ACEEE Summer Study Paper
Building Performance Standards are a powerful tool to improve energy efficiency and building performance, and they can advance community-centered, inclusive, equitable policymaking.
Building Performance Standard Module: Housing Affordability
Building performance policies can play a big role in carbon reduction, but to be equitable, they must also address housing affordability.
Building Performance Standard Module: Resilience
Building performance policies can play a big role in carbon reduction, but these policies should also address equitable climate adaptation solutions.
Building Performance Standard Module: Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality
This module is meant to provide a starting point for jurisdictions to engage with community members on building-related issues that are important to the community.