The Green Museums Community is Taking Climate Action
This past September the International Council of Museums (ICOM) unanimously adopted a resolution asserting that all museums have a role to play in shaping and creating a sustainable future.
Energy Benchmarking
Energy benchmarking is essential for understanding a building’s energy use and how it compares to the average energy usage in similar building types. To learn more about the benefits of benchmarking, check out IMT’s resources below.
The Latest
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: Communications Materials: Compliance Templates
This template toolkit provides the backbone documents for four key city-issued compliance communications.
City Energy Project: Model Ordinance Language for a Policy to Improve the Performance of Existing Buildings
These documents present sample language that can be used by jurisdictions interested in drafting a comprehensive existing building performance policy that encompasses provisions for benchmarking, as well as additional actions beyond benchmarking.
City Energy Project: Implementing Building Performance Policies: How Cities Can Apply Legislation for Maximum Effect
This guide helps cities launch and implement a benchmarking program that tracks building energy consumption and deploys the data to encourage building owners to improve building energy efficiency.
City Energy Project: Creating and Running a Building Performance Help Center
This guide describes what a benchmarking help center does and guides city government staff in developing a help center to meet their city’s needs and improve benchmarking compliance rates.
City Energy Project: Creating a High-Impact Performance Policy: A Decision Framework for Local Governments
This guide is designed to help city staff understand and work with stakeholders to craft a policy that will drive demand for energy-efficient buildings.
City Energy Project: Tips for Delivering Testimony
As proposed policies move through the approval process in a city, public testimony may be requested in favor or against legislation. This guide summarizes tips for delivering testimony as well as coordinating that of stakeholders.
City Energy Project: Stakeholder Meeting Invite Template
This resource serves as an invite template for inviting stakeholders to participate in meetings and public forums. Cities can also use this template to get started on creating a customized invitation.
City Energy Project: Engage with Utilities to Implement Energy Performance Policies
This guide focuses on the key steps that cities should take to engage their energy and water utilities around the development and implementation of a building performance policy.