Building Performance Standards (BPS) have emerged as a potent new policy to improve the energy/emissions performance of buildings. However, as a policy that impacts existing buildings, they raise important questions for historic buildings. The presentation will present a new policy toolkit that addresses how to effectively integrate historic buildings and historic preservation into BPS. Funded by the Fitch Foundation, the toolkit includes a survey of existing policies, an exploration of the preservation issues and a collection of model language that can be adapted to existing and new BPS.  The policy toolkit has the potential to influence the shape of this new sustainability policy in a way that protects and even benefits historic preservation goals at a key moment in the broader adoption of BPS in the policy landscape.

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