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: Opportunities and Risks for BEPS
How can architects and engineers manage the risks, while simultaneously positioning themselves for the opportunities, of BEPS?
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Sustainability and Historic Preservation: Options and Opportunities in DC
Guest authors argue historic preservation is essential to achieving climate goals in DC and elsewhere
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Event Takeaways: What Will It Take? Constructing Carbon-Free Buildings
5 takeaways from our panel on constructing carbon-free buildings
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Event Takeaways: Where DC’s Building Codes Meets BEPS
Top takeways from our webinar with Kim Cheslak on DC's codes and how they intersect with the District's Building Energy Performance Standards
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BEPS Standards and Compliance Rules Finalized
A detailed summary of the final BEPS compliance regulations, the Standards per property type, and updates to the Benchmarking requirements.
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Building Innovation Hub Joins UN International Centre of Excellence on High-Performance Buildings
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe names the Hub an International Centre of Excellence on High Performing Buildings.
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Transforming DC’s Buildings: A Conversation with Industry Leaders
Members of the Hub's Industry Leadership Forum identified barriers and solutions to creating high-performance buildings.
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Building Innovation Hub Announces Highest Performing Buildings in DC
The Building Innovation Hub Announces DC's greenest buildings, as measured by ENERGY STAR scores in 2020
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Event Takeaways: What Will It Take? Developing Carbon-Free Buildings
5 takeaways from our panel on developing carbon-free buildings
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Event Takeaways: What Will It Take? Operating Carbon-Free Buildings
5 takeaways from our panel on operating carbon-free buildings
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Event Takeaways: What Will It Take? Designing Carbon-Free Buildings
5 takeaways from our panel on designing carbon-free buildings
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Improving Building Performance from the Inside Out
Cassandra Mellon of ROCKWOOL talks about the future sustainable building performance and embodied carbon in Washington DC and beyond
![ROCKWOOL Brand Experience Center, Ranson, WV](https://buildinginnovationhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RAN-May-2021-1-460x380.jpg)