Denver, CO - ARTICLE XIV. - HIGH-PERFORMANCE EXISTING BUILDINGS PROGRAM
The purpose of this article is first to establish a high-performance existing buildings program that requires covered building owners to benchmark building energy performance and to make such energy performance information publicly available in order to raise awareness and drive action. The article's purpose is also to require covered building owners to address existing building performance through energy efficiency, renewables, and/or renewable heating and cooling (electrification) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment to further the City and County of Denver's climate action goal of zero greenhouse gas emissions in existing buildings by 2040.