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What’s Your Baseline? Benchmarking and the Advancement of Building Performance Standards (BEPS) This blog is an update to Calico’s original blog post titled “What’s Your Baseline? Benchmarking and the Advent of Building Performance Standards (BEPS)” from August of  2020. We have woven our 2023 update in italics along with our original 2020 text.  Then: If you’re in the utility world, or the energy policy world, or the building management world… Read More »What’s Your Baseline? Benchmarking and the Advancement of Building Performance Standards

What’s Your Baseline? Benchmarking and the Advent of Building Performance Standards (BEPS) If you’re in the utility world, or the energy policy world, or the building management world (or, or, OR), you know about building benchmarking. Typically when required, owners measure and submit their building’s energy consumption for comparison and analyses, most often by the EPA. For a while, these policies proliferated across the nation, providing low-cost, low-risk resource conservation… Read More »What’s Your Baseline? Benchmarking and the Advent of Building Performance Standards