The Clean Energy DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2018 established the District of Columbia’s (DC) Building Energy Performance Standard (BEPS). This policy requires DC buildings to use less energy than the allowed maximum level of energy use. For buildings that do not meet the BEPS, building owners must take steps to reduce their building’s energy use over a 5-year compliance cycle or face financial penalties for non-compliance. Because the policy is designed to continuously drive building energy use down, BEPS will change the way everyone in the DC market thinks about and plans for building energy use. Beyond DC, building performance standards are being implemented in numerous jurisdictions and in different ways.
In this webinar, Baumann Consulting’s Scott Emery will explain what building performance standards are and what DC BEPS is, how BEPS is impacting DC buildings, how to comply, and the steps that every DC building owner and project manager should be taking today to avoid major financial penalties in the coming years.
At the end of this one-hour webinar, you will:
- Know what is BEPS, understand the BEPS timeline, and know when to act
- Understand where you should be with respect to improving your building’s performance to meet BEPS
- Have a framework for developing your building-specific plan for ongoing BEPS compliance
- Understand BEPS’s potential to impact long-term asset management and planning in DC
- Understand how jurisdictions other than DC are implementing building performance standards
Scott Emery is a Senior Vice President and Head of Baumann Consulting’s Existing Building Decarbonization service area. He has more than two decades of business and engineering experience including over a decade of experience helping make buildings more energy-efficient. Baumann Consulting specializes in high-performance building consulting for existing buildings and new developments and has worked on more than 550 projects around the world with a focus on saving our clients energy and money.
