Recent Posts
The UK's Energy Performance Measurement March
The march toward universal energy performance measurement is on in the UK.
After subscribing to the minimum requirements of the 2002 Energy Performance of Building Directives (EPBD), the UK has been steadily expanding the pool of eligible properties and stringency of compliance.
A Canadian Perspective on Rating: Part 1 of 3
What makes Canada different?
Canadians and Americans have an affinity for one another. We share the longest undefended border in the world, visit each other in unparalleled numbers, and share allegiances to many of the same sports teams. In business, we are each other’s best customer. This shared experience has led BuildingRating.org to seek perspectives from north of the line, and my contributions will aim to – as my favourite exam question goes – “compare and contrast” our systems, in order to see what we can learn from each other.
Hip new rating resources
The public and private sectors are preparing their resources to assist with building energy efficiency measures. As many local jurisdictions around the country prepare to implement and finalize various rating and benchmarking programs, innovators are mobilizing on both the supply and demand sides of the energy performance market. Here are four hip new examples.
Oregon House Debate Highlights Building Performance Labeling
Should building owners be required to provide public information on the energy performance of their buildings? Would such disclosure help to promote the local commercial and residential real estate sectors? A number of Oregon legislators and their constituents would answer “yes” and “yes.”
The year of the rating policy?
It’s likely that 2011 will see a seismic shift in the landscape of environmental policy. Even in the efficiency world, where using and spending less appeals to both sides of the aisle, there are modulations ahead. With fresh fiscal attitudes adding to a down-trodden economy, the country is looking for innovative and cheap ways to reduce spending and induce growth.
A Shout Out From Our Friends at ICLEI
The awesome folks over at ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) were kind enough to lend their blog space to an IMT guest post on the launch of BuildingRating.org. We certainly hope that BuildingRating.org will prove to be an interesting and helpful resource for many of the over 600 local governments that belong to the ICLEI USA network.
A snippet from the blog:
On the Road to Find Out
As director of IMT’s building energy rating program for just more than a year now, I have had the wonderful privilege of traveling the country and the world to explore building energy disclosure policy.
Introducing BuildingRating.org
We are proud to announce (drumroll, please…) the official launch of the new one-stop-shop for everything you ever needed or wanted to know about the rating and disclosure of energy performance in buildings… BuildingRating.org.
Sunday afternoon blues
You know those rainy Sunday afternoons when you’re all out of peanut butter and can't think of anything to do? You’re too fat to go to the gym, your Ouija board is broken, and the only movies in theaters are starring Matt Damon. You're cold and lazy, and the only thing that could possibly lift your spirits is cruising through documents on international building energy rating and disclosure practices. Right?
I thought so.
National Energy Rating Program for Homes in the Works
Did you know that the U.S. Department of Energy is currently working to develop a voluntary, National Energy Rating Program for Homes? Go, Dr. Chu, go!
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