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Local buildings create more than two-thirds of our community’s carbon emissions. To help tackle climate change, improve air quality, and drive economic opportunities locally, the City of Fort Collins is exploring Building Performance Standards (BPS). BPS are a targeted way to cut pollution, reduce energy consumption, and create a heathier and more resilient environment both indoors and outdoors. Explore the project's background.
BPS are considered by many experts to be the most powerful and direct tool(External link) for driving improved energy use in existing buildings. Typically, they require commercial and multi-family buildings to meet energy performance targets and deadlines set by local policy.
Over the course of 2023 and 2024, we partnered with the local community to develop detailed BPS policy recommendations, which you can review in the Proposed Policy Specifics section. Policies that impact our local buildings affect nearly all of us, and voices across our community are critical to inform the policy development process.Learn how the community is participating.
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Local buildings create more than two-thirds of our community’s carbon emissions. To help tackle climate change, improve air quality, and drive economic opportunities locally, the City of Fort Collins is exploring Building Performance Standards (BPS). BPS are a targeted way to cut pollution, reduce energy consumption, and create a heathier and more resilient environment both indoors and outdoors. Explore the project's background.
BPS are considered by many experts to be the most powerful and direct tool(External link) for driving improved energy use in existing buildings. Typically, they require commercial and multi-family buildings to meet energy performance targets and deadlines set by local policy.
Over the course of 2023 and 2024, we partnered with the local community to develop detailed BPS policy recommendations, which you can review in the Proposed Policy Specifics section. Policies that impact our local buildings affect nearly all of us, and voices across our community are critical to inform the policy development process.Learn how the community is participating.
Building Performance Standards has finished this stage
Q4 2022-ongoing -Collecting targeted internal and external input
Task Force Committee Work
Building Performance Standards has finished this stage
Q1-Q4 2023 -Task Force generated high level policy recommendations
Policy Consideration
Building Performance Standards has finished this stage
Q2 2024 - Present -City Council Work Session, April 23, 2024
-City Council Work Session, June 11, 2024
Technical Committee and Climate Equity Committee Work
Building Performance Standards has finished this stage
2023-ongoing -Technical Committee supports Task Force recommendations with extensive data review while balancing real-world understanding of Fort Collins buildings -Engaging with the Climate Equity Committee(External link)
Resource Gathering
Building Performance Standards is currently at this stage
Q3-Q4 2024 -In preparation for possible policy adoption, the City is working to secure and customize required resources (educational, financial and technical) for building owners, with an emphasis on under-resources buildings
Next Steps - Policy Consideration
this is an upcoming stage for Building Performance Standards
Jan. 14, 2025 -City Council Work Session
Policy Implementation (to be determined)
this is an upcoming stage for Building Performance Standards
-Beginoffering education and resources; notifications begin