Ian Brown
CEM
Seattle Public Schools | Resource Conservation Specialist
Speaker
Track D: Clean Energy Transition: Challenges and Opportunities
Session D2: Resilient Energy Transitions
March 12, 2026 | 10:00 am - 10:30 am
Seattle Public Schools Compliance with BPS and BEPS
| Seattle Public Schools (SPS) has 105 facilities that need to comply with WA state’s Clean Building Performance Standard and Seattle’s Building Emissions Performance Standard. Compliance pathways differ for each standard, though planning for both necessitates overlap when strategizing for costs and schedules with such a large building portfolio. What does it take to collate data, implement building audits, forecast and plan for financing necessary for compliance, and take advantage of offered incentives? This presentation will catalog SPS’s progression with compliance for both standards, along with building data, audit results, and financing challenges. |
Speaker Bio
Ian A. Brown is one of two Resource Conservation Specialists at Seattle Public Schools, since April 2019. He concentrates on energy and water utility tracking, data analysis, conservation strategies, decarbonization, rebates and grants, and for the last 3 years, building performance standards. . He also installed energy monitoring systems and data acquisition platforms and performed blower door and duct blasting tests for a variety of residential and commercial end-use load research projects. He contributed to pioneering studies on residential infiltration, building envelopes and HVAC system efficiency. He studied Energy Systems and Physics at Vassar and The Evergreen State College.