The Emmis Corp. headquarters building on Monument Circle was noncompliant in 2025 in the city’s utility benchmarking program, just like nearly 85% of the 2,217 buildings the ordinance applied to last ...

Despite the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate the program, it receives $33 million as part of a fiscal 2026 funding bill signed last week.

Minneapolis is the latest major metro to require large commercial buildings to benchmark and disclose their energy and water use. Beginning in 2015, private commercial buildings >50,000 sf will have ...

ACEEE explores how utilities can help make energy- and emissions-saving building performance standard policies effective and equitable.

ROCHESTER — Owners and operators of 50,000-square-foot and larger buildings are being encouraged to attend an open-house forum Tuesday to learn about Rochester’s proposed energy benchmarking policy.

The Windy City is the latest U.S. city to enact legislation that mandates building energy benchmarking and disclosure for owners of large commercial and residential buildings. The ordinance was ...

ROCHESTER — A voluntary Rochester program aimed at logging energy efficiency in local buildings and businesses could add a mandatory component next year. “We’ve really been working toward this policy ...

It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows: That Chapter 8, Buildings and Building Constructions, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and is ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The City of Charlotte began its sustainability journey in ...

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It’s been almost five years since the city joined sustainability-minded municipalities in passing an ordinance that requires ...