Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) | Building Policy Collaborative (BPC)

Facilitation of DRCOG’s Building Policy Collaborative (BPC)

Lotus is leading the facilitation of a region-wide collaborative of local governments to develop and implement a series of regionally consistent energy codes and policies to reduce carbon pollution from buildings in the Denver Metro Region. The project is a five- year grant funded effort, that will culminate in regionally adopted model codes and policies to advance climate goals. In partnership with DRCOG, Lotus is managing several work streams to coordinate the region’s local government staff to achieve these outcomes. The workstreams include facilitation of quarterly meetings with all 40 local governments, facilitation of a steering committee to provide equity and process oversight on the project, policy working groups to research, identify, and draft model policy language for the region, development of a regional visioning document that outlines the region’s goals for carbon-free buildings by 2050, management of key partner engagement across the region for the building industry and community-based organizations, as well as ongoing engagement and technical support for all the local governments to engage with elected officials on the efforts of the BPC, provide technical and subject-matter expertise to answer questions on policy adoption, and provide resources and support for policy adoption and implementation.