The Department of Energy announced that 19 state and local governments will receive over $240 million in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to adopt and implement the latest energy-efficient or innovative building codes. These improvements are intended to help save residents and commercial building operators money on their utility bills. The funding is part of the support that DOE is providing to states, localities, territories and tribes to advance both traditional and innovative building energy codes, resulting in more resilient, efficient and better buildings.

Selected projects include, among others, $19.8 million to Philadelphia to design, develop, adopt, implement and enforce a building performance standard to maximize emission reductions from large buildings while providing robust support programs that will ensure equitable outcomes with high compliance rates; $20 million to Colorado to create a statewide program to provide technical assistance and resources to respond to the needs identified by disadvantaged communities when complying with Colorado’s building performance standard; $19.9 million to Massachusetts to support implementation of its building performance standards through direct technical support and capacity building among existing building trades programs; $19.9 million to New York City to support the successful implementation of its building performance standard by increasing compliance support for multifamily buildings across the city, particularly those in disadvantaged communities, and by increasing in-house capacity to monitor, support and enforce requirements; and $18.1 million to Hawaii to develop and adopt a building performance standard with an objective of simultaneously reducing costs and making resources, jobs and training available in disadvantaged communities over the course of its implementation. The full list of projects is available.