Building Performance Standards (BPS) are an innovative new policy approach for building efficiency and decarbonization. A BPS is a policy that sets specific deadlines for existing public and private buildings over a certain size to achieve quantified standards of performance across one or more metrics—such as energy use, water use, and/or greenhouse gas emissions. The standards become more ambitious over time, driving continuous, long-term improvement in the building stock. Learn how BPS complements traditional building energy code approaches, but works quite differently.
