Model Performance-Based Lease Template
This model performance-based lease template helps landlords and tenants benefit from energy efficiency improvements.
Existing Buildings
Local governments and building owners can improve the performance of their existing buildings through a variety of mechanisms, from building tune-up requirements and retrocommissioning to building performance standards. To learn more about IMT’s work with local governments and building owners to address performance in existing buildings, check out our collection of resources below.
The Latest
High-Performance Leases: A Solution for Reducing Carbon Emissions in Commercial Buildings
This Environmental Law in New York article explains how high-performance leases or performance-based leases can improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings
Getting Started with Performance-Based Leasing
An overview of performance-based leasing for commercial building owners and tenants.
Decarbonizing New York’s Inefficient Buildings
What empty offices taught us about building efficiency and the path the decarbonization
Decarbonizing New York City Offices: Industry Survey Report
NYSERDA-funded commercial real estate survey of how building owners and operators on building energy efficiency
Colorado’s New Building Performance Standards
An interview with Kim Burke of the Colorado State Energy office about Colorado’s new building energy performance law.
Boston Introduces Building Performance Standard
Boston is poised to become the latest city to adopt a building performance standard.
The Super Climate Pollutants in Our Buildings, and How to Eliminate Them
Building systems emit more than just carbon. What to cut now and how it matters for climate action.
What the White House’s Building Performance Standard Means and How to Do It Right
How the Biden administration can set building performance standards for federal buildings that benefit people and climate
Announcing the 2021 Green Lease Leaders
IMT and the Department of Energy announce the 2021 Green Lease Leaders