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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.

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.