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The Building Innovation Hub provides expert insight into the latest trends in DC-area commercial real estate, focusing on emerging and growing concepts relevant to green buildings, building automation, high-performance design, smart building technology, and more.

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Event Takeaways: Seeing Green: Financing Better Buildings

Local building industry professionals and financial experts convened to discuss, share, and learn about funding and financing high-performance buildings.

Event Takeaways: Understanding PACE Financing

Event takeaways from the Hub and AOBA Metro Washington's recently hosted a webinar on property-assessed clean energy (PACE) financing.

How to Use the Third-Party Benchmarking Data Verification Scope of Work

A guide for confirming the accuracy of your building’s data

New Member Baumann Consulting Brings an International Perspective to Local Decarbonization

The Building Innovation Hub chatted with Oliver Baumann, President & CEO, and Scott Emery, SVP, Director of Existing Building Decarbonization…

What to Know About the Greener Government Buildings Amendment Act of 2022

A high-level overview of the GGBA and open questions still in play.

The Inflation Reduction Act and DC’s BEPS – what works, what doesn’t, and what we don’t yet know

Building owners looking to take advantage of tax incentives as they improve their properties in line with BEPS should check out the updated 179D deduction, recently expanded by the Inflation Reduction Act.

Energy Monitoring and Code Q&A

This Q&A explains code-based metering requirements for new buildings in the District and best practices around how to apply metering to existing buildings and using data.

Green Buildings: An Innovative Path to NetZero through Safety, Diversity, and Digital Construction

Local and international experts convened to discuss challenges and solutions to equitable, safe, zero-carbon buildings.

Interviews from the Field: the District’s Building Energy Performance Standards

To learn more about the Building Energy Performance Standards law in practice, the Hub team interviewed a handful of building owners and managers representing buildings subject to BEPS.

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Director’s Testimony on Proposed DC BEPS Delay

On April 6, 2023 Theresa Backhus shared the industry feedback the Hub has received regarding the Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) with the Committee on Transportation and the Environment, Budget Oversight Hearing on the Department of Energy and Environment and the Green Finance Authority.

Introducing Mary Thomas and Yolanda Bonner

New Hub team members Mary Thomas and Yolanda Bonner share their background and ambitions for the Hub.

DC’s Building Energy Law Promotes Small Business and Job Opportunities

MD Energy Advisors' Co-Founder Paul Clary chats about the different opportunities that Washington, D.C.'s BEPS can offer.

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