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Audit Template: A Tool for Streamlining Compliance in Building Performance Standards (BPS)

Geographic Scope: National | Document Type: Fact sheet/Brief | Focus: Data Collection & Analysis, Implementation Software & Tools | Author Category: DOE and National Labs

Standardizing and streamlining the audit documentation process can help Building Performance Standard (BPS) program managers achieve consistency in compliance and aid individual building managers to document and implement building efficiency improvements more effectively. This document describes how the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Audit Template tool can play a key role in managing BPS compliance over time by allowing standardized energy audit data collection, reporting, and management of multiple compliance cycles.

Energy Usage Data Access: A Getting-Started Guide for Regulators

Published: 2017 | Geographic Scope: National | Document Type: Report | Focus: Data Collection & Analysis | Author Category: NGO

This ACEEE webpage discusses approaches for facilitating statewide energy data access and the roles and opportunities for different stakeholders, including residents, multifamily building owners, businesses, utilities, and regulators. 

Data Access: A Fundamental Element for Benchmarking and Building Energy Performance Policies

Published: 2021 | Geographic Scope: National | Document Type: Report | Focus: Data Collection & Analysis | Author Category: EPA

Describes the critical role that utilities play in providing whole-building energy consumption data to enable compliance with benchmarking and transparency and BPS polices.

Making Data-Driven Policy Decisions for the Nation’s First Building Energy Performance Standards

Published: 2020 | Geographic Scope: Regional | Document Type: Case Study | Focus: Data Collection & Analysis | Author Category: DOE and National Labs

This paper explores this revolutionary policy framework and uses two data analysis projects that DC conducted to evaluate the potential impact of the BEPS and move towards carbon neutrality. First, they analyze the potential energy savings and greenhouse gas reductions, as well as potential cost impacts. Then they examine the role of BEPS in a carbon neutrality strategy, how BEPS savings iterate over time, and what additional existing building improvements will be driven.

BEPS Cost-Benefit Study

Published: 2022 | Geographic Scope: Regional | Document Type: Case Study | Focus: Data Collection & Analysis | Author Category: U.S. Jurisdiction

Contains a summary review of existing industry cost/benefit research, the technical assessment of 13 buildings representative of the largest property types in the District, a short analysis of other property types, and a summary of findings. The case study sections depict the primary outputs of a technical assessment of the potential costs and benefits for buildings to meet the statutory requirements, including building energy model reference cases and a summary of findings from building case studies.

Better Buildings – Benchmarking and Building Performance Standards: A Resource Compendium

Geographic Scope: National | Document Type: Resource Page | Focus: Benchmarking, Data Collection & Analysis | Author Category: DOE and National Labs

The U.S. DOE Better Buildings has put together a list of resources to help navigate tools and procedures for tracking, reporting, and compliance with benchmarking and building performance standards.