Support and Resources

Commerce serves as the administrator of the Clean Buildings Performance Standard. We are also here for technical assistance. The building owner is responsible for meeting the requirements of the standard. Yet, the owner may designate other parties to fulfill the owner’s responsibility and comply with the standard. Understanding these different roles can help you determine what support you may need to comply.

Supporting roles for compliance

Commerce serves as the administrator of the Clean Buildings Performance Standard. We are also here for technical assistance. The building owner is responsible for meeting the requirements of the standard. Yet, the owner may designate other parties to fulfill the owner’s responsibility and comply with the standard. Understanding these different roles can help you determine what support you may need to comply.

  • Learn more using the Buildings Roles and Responsibilities (PDF) matrix
  • Clean Buildings (tier 2) Qualified Energy Manager training program will be offered in the future. Please subscribe to the bulletin for the announcement.

Commerce is calling on all qualified persons and qualified energy auditors to participate in our voluntary directories. The purpose of each directory is to connect building owners looking to comply with the Standard with individuals who meet the specific credentials required.

Commerce is not responsible for vetting -it is the building owner’s responsibility to confirm that the qualified person meets all project-specific qualifications.

There are two specific requirements assigned to the state’s gas and electric utilities.

  • RCW 19.27a.170, Benchmarking: This section requires utilities to provide energy consumption data to building owners upon request. Large utilities (greater than 25,000 customers) are required to provide this data using Energy Star Portfolio Managers automated upload protocol. Smaller utilities are to provide the data to building owners in an excel document, meeting Energy Star Portfolio Manager specifications.
  • RCW 19.27A.220 State energy performance standard -Early adoption incentive program: Commerce is to develop an early adopter incentive program to support building owners making efficiency improvements. This program is administered by Commerce. Large utilities are required to participate by making incentive payments to building owners. The incentive payments, plus administrative fees, are then deducted from the utilities public utility tax. Smaller utilities’ participation in the incentive program is optional.

Various organizations, including local government, and companies throughout Washington state have literature, incentives and programs designed to support building owners to comply with or exceed the Standard.

Included here are links to programs and their offerings.

If there are any training or certification programs that need to be added to this resources section, please contact us at Buildings@Commerce.wa.gov.

Resources for building compliance

Documents that used to be found here are now available in the Clean Buildings Document Library.

The training workshops linked below were sponsored by Avista, Clark PUD, Puget Sound Energy, Snohomish County PUD and Tacoma Power.

Form F: Life Cycle Analysis (LCCA) Tool

The Investment Criteria Tool (Form F) is the LCCA tool specific to the Clean Buildings Performance Standard, although similar, the LCCA tool published by OFM/DES is not interchangeable.

Please note: This User’s Guide may not fully capture nor reflect the WA state amendments to Standard 100, as required by law. Please download and review the Clean Building Performance Standard (CBPS) integrated document (on Smartsheet) for further details.

CBPS links

Resources

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