Nevada BPS | Building Performance Standard

Lotus partnered with Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP) to facilitate a cohort of communities across northern and southern Nevada, aiming to advance the two regions towards implementing benchmarking and Building Performance Standard (BPS) policies, following the lead of Reno, NV, a City with a BPS program in place. 

The facilitation included six meetings in which Lotus and SWEEP provided education on the technical aspects of benchmarking and BPS as well as key strategies for engaging stakeholders in the policy development and adoption processes. The technical policy topics included developing covered buildings lists, performance metrics and targets, data collection and reporting, compliance pathways, and enforcement strategies. Stakeholder engagement topics covered strategies for engaging with internal stakeholders, frameworks and approaches for external engagement, community-focused engagement, and strategies to engage elected officials. 

The Cohort had varying levels of ambition regarding benchmarking and BPS adoption, so the project prioritized creating space for peer to peer collaboration while empowering each community to take meaningful steps forward in a way that aligned with their unique community.