Alternative Compliance Path Factsheet
An overview of how alternative compliance paths help buildings of all types improve energy efficiency and overall building performance.
Building Performance Standards (BPS)
This collection of resources combines all of IMT's existing guidance on building performance standards.
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Integrating Equity into Building Performance Standards
Buildings are more than bricks and walls: they’re where we live, work, and learn. In most large cities in North America, buildings are also the largest source of the greenhouse gas emissions warming our planet.
The Landscape of Building Performance Standard Pathway Alternatives
The report provides a landscape assessment of alternative compliance pathways used for building performance standards nationwide.
Overview: High-Performance Building Hubs
Learn why high-performance building hubs are valuable tools for better buildings, and how the Building Performance Partnership iss scaling up hubs nationally.
Equitable Building Decarbonization Options in a Changing Legal Landscape
How jurisdictions can be prepared for likely legal challenges to equitable building decarbonization options.
Lessons from the Ground: Implementing Building Performance Standards
This paper explains the role of efficiency programs in building performance standards (BPS) implementation and considers how the next phase of BPS policies can accelerate an equitable, low-carbon future.
What defines a building performance standard (BPS)?
Learn how BPS complements traditional building energy code approaches, but works quite differently.
Equitable Decarbonization Learning Series: Part I
This series explains equitable decarbonization, including why buildings matter and how energy efficient buildings benefit our communities.
Better Buildings for Everyone: Understanding Legal Pathways for Building Performance and Decarbonization
This webinar features Daniel Carpenter-Gold, Jamie Long, and Dani Replogle of the Public Health Law Center speaking about available pathways for jurisdictions to pursue building electrification and decarbonization.
Better Buildings for Everyone: How High-Performance Building Hubs Catalyze Action
Hear from five High-Performance Building Hubs about how they are providing unique and localized support to their building industry to accomplish citywide climate goals.