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Maryland is implementing a state-wide Building Energy Performance Standard (BEPS) for buildings 35,000 square feet and over as a requirement under the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022. Let’s take a look at what we know so far.

SWA has come across several challenges and learned a lot through our benchmarking data verification efforts. While some of the data corrections may be unique to the buildings, some are more general. Here are five of the issues we’ve seen…

Get answers to all your questions about New York City’s Building Energy Efficiency Rating Labels and letter grades from our energy experts.

Montgomery County, MD, passed Bill 16-21, which creates a Building Energy Performance Standard (BEPS) for buildings within the county. What happens next?

What if the city’s pathway to decarbonization had a single plan of action – to make New York City a Passive House City?

The final BEPS compliance rules from DOEE cover the different compliance pathways and the documentation required for each pathway.

Applicants for any public funding for affordable housing must meet stringent energy efficiency targets. Learn more about the green building requirements.

To meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, we must make decisions that take into account both embodied carbon and operational carbon.

The need for sustainably designed buildings and infrastructure is critical as extreme weather patterns and natural disasters resulting from climate change persist. One of the truest measures of sustainability in this case is resiliency.

Third-party commissioning increases the likelihood that a PV system will perform as designed throughout its lifetime and reduces poorly performing PV systems, which erode the bottom line and damage solar energy’s reputation.

The Pirelli Tire Building, designed by noted Modernist architect Marcel Breuer in 1967, is located adjacent to Route 95 in New Haven, CT. Armstrong Rubber Co. originally owned this unique, panel-clad lab and office space from 1970-1988. (

AeroBarrier is touted as the best route to never fail another blower door test. The technology, which involves pressurizing a space with a blower door fan while misting a water-based glue into the air from multiple points throughout the space,…