Presentation Title:
Clean Buildings Programs on the Eastside
Track A: Implementing Energy Efficiency
Session A1: Federal, State, and Local Energy Programs
Day 1Â 3:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Abstract:
Our buildings serve fundamental community priorities: economic opportunity, public health, equity, and climate change. They will be key to electrification, relieving pressure on the grid, and achieving our low-carbon, climate-safe future. The climate crisis already brings extreme heat, drought, forest fire smoke, and flooding to our region. Here, too, buildings can help us: cleaning our indoor air and maintaining cool spaces for us to live, work, learn, and play.
Bellevue and Issaquah are among the first in our region to develop clean building programs. With performance and reporting deadlines approaching, local governments are supporting building staff to understand energy use, identify upgrades, leverage financial incentives, and navigate compliance processes. Washington State, which adopted the Clean Buildings Act in 2019, undergirds each of these services. Together, with hard work by our buildings and state support, we can modernize our built environment to carry our communities through the 21st century.
Bellevue and Issaquah are among the first in our region to develop clean building programs. With performance and reporting deadlines approaching, local governments are supporting building staff to understand energy use, identify upgrades, leverage financial incentives, and navigate compliance processes. Washington State, which adopted the Clean Buildings Act in 2019, undergirds each of these services. Together, with hard work by our buildings and state support, we can modernize our built environment to carry our communities through the 21st century.