Marshall Duer-Balkind is IMT’s Director of Policy and Codes Programs. He partners with state and local governments to develop and implement policies and codes for high-performance buildings, grounded in community priorities and technical quality.
Marshall is an international expert in policies and technologies to improve the energy and carbon performance of buildings and communities, with 15 years of experience in the government, for-profit, and nonprofit sectors in the U.S. and Canada. Prior to starting his current role at IMT, Marshall was a consultant at the global MEP engineering firm Introba, where he developed decarbonization plans and programs for over 30 governments and institutions across North America. He also worked for the District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment, where he built one of the first energy benchmarking and disclosure programs in the U.S. and oversaw performance evaluation of the DC Sustainable Energy Utility, starting out as one of IMT’s first “City Advisors” embedded in a local government.
In addition to his IMT duties, Marshall advances building performance standard innovation both locally, as the Chair of Washington, DC’s Building Energy Performance Standards Task Force, and internationally, as a Voting Member of ASHRAE Standing Standard Project Committee 100 and Vice-Chair of its Compliance Working Group. Marshall earned a Master’s of Environmental Management degree from the Yale School of the Environment, and a Bachelor’s degree in Politics and Computer Science from Oberlin College.
