DOE has drafted model ESPC language providing process descriptions, examples, and tables as well as the critical details that define the project, operations, and management.
Explores recent actions to electrify buildings, breaking down the legal mechanics of local laws and the role of state laws in facilitating or constraining local policies, particularly natural gas bans in California and Massachusetts.
Surveys 20 different zero-energy programs across the country, and discusses these programs and the push to construct homes and buildings that produce as much energy as they use.
Intended for cities and other government bodies to develop a strategy, action plan and policies to dramatically reduce embodied carbon, defined as carbon emissions from manufacture, transport, use and end of life of construction materials.
Template code language for loca Low Carbon Concrete Building Standards, referencing relevant state codes for California municipalities.
Requiring product-specific Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) and using those EPDs to select lower impact mixes for Portland Cement Concrete.
Committing the local government to promoting the use of low embodied carbon concrete products in building and infrastructure projects within the Village.
Was the first in the nation to address the negative environmental externalities of concrete when it added a mandatory low carbon concrete specification to the Marin County Building Code.
Dramatically upgrades the Maryland county’s existing green building real property tax credit, prioritizing energy reduction in the name of GHG emission reduction in new and existing commercial and multifamily buildings.
Highlights policy options and case studies along the full EV spectrum from vehicle purchase to charging infrastructure to battery recycling.