E1.0a – Energy and Carbon Assessment​

Q: Has a Walkthrough Energy and Carbon Assessment been completed in the past five years?

E2.0 – Energy Management Plan

Q: Is there an energy management plan with specific energy or carbon reduction targets?

E6.0 – Preventative Maintenance

Q: Is a Preventive Maintenance Plan in place for the building?

E1.1 — Mechanical System Assessment

Q: Has a condition assessment of the mechanical systems and components been completed in the past five years?

E1.2 — Envelope Assessment

Q: Has a Condition Assessment of the envelope and envelope components been completed in the past five years?

E1.3a — Detailed Energy and Carbon Assessment

Q: Has a Detailed Energy and Carbon Assessment been performed in the past five years?

E1.4 — Deep Retrofit Study

Q: Has a Deep Energy and Carbon Retrofit Study been performed on targeted building systems in the past 10 years?

E2.1a — Net Zero Transition Plan

Q: Is there a net zero transition plan or decarbonization roadmap with specific carbon reduction targets?

E2.2 — Capital Plan

Q: Are high-cost energy conservation or carbon reduction measures from the assessment included in the capital plan?

E3.1a — Benchmarking Energy Use

Q: What is the calculated Energy Star score for the building?

E3.2a — Benchmarking Carbon Emissions

Q: Are the whole building’s carbon emissions quantified and benchmarked?

E3.3 — Third-Party Recognition

Q: Has the building’s energy use or carbon emissions been certified by, reported to or recognized by a third party?

E4.1a — Energy Use Tracking

Q: Was whole-building energy use data tracked before and during Covid?

E4.2a — Carbon Emissions Tracking

Q: Are the carbon emissions associated with whole-building energy use tracked beyond the most recent 12 months?

E4.3 — Data Monitoring

Q: How frequently are energy use and carbon emissions trended and monitored?

E5.1 — Energy and Carbon Conservation

Q: Which energy conservation or carbon reduction measures were implemented in the past five years?

E5.2 — Conservation Achieved

Q: Is there evidence that energy efficiency improved or carbon emissions reduced due to measures implemented in the past ten years?

E6.1 — Retro-commissioning Investigation

Q: Has an Existing Building Commissioning, Recommissioning or Retro-Commissioning Investigation or Operational Optimization Study been completed in the last five years?

E6.2 — Fault Detection

Q: Is Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) in place?

E7.1 — Building Automation

Q: Does the building have an operational building automation system (BAS)?

E7.2 — Control Strategies

Q: What control strategies are in place?

E7.3 — Controls Optimization

Q: Are mechanisms in place to proactively assess system and/or equipment performance for optimization opportunities?

E8.1a — LEDs

Q: Are LED lighting installed in spaces controlled by the owner or landlord?

E8.2a — Light Sensors

Q: Are occupancy or daylight sensors installed in owner or landlord-controlled spaces, where appropriate?

E8.3 — Lighting Zones

Q: Are lighting controls installed in the building, where appropriate?

E9.1 — Peak Demand

Q: Is the building’s peak electrical demand known?

E9.2 — Peak Demand Patterns

Q: Is the month with the highest heating fuel consumption known?

E9.3 — Reducing Seasonal Peaks

Q: Have low-carbon opportunities been identified or implemented to reduce seasonal peak heating loads and heating/cooling electrical demand?

E10.1 — HVAC Efficiency

Q: Is high efficiency, low carbon mechanical equipment installed in the building?

E10.2 — On-site Combustion

Q: Has the building transitioned off all forms of on-site combustion?

E11.1 — Envelope Improvement

Q: Have any of the low-cost envelope improvement measures identified in assessment, condition or deep retrofit studies been implemented?

E11.2 — Envelope Upgrade

Q: Have major envelope upgrades been completed or initiated in the past ten years?

E12.1 — Training in Energy and Carbon

Q: Did the building operations and management team receive Energy and Carbon training in the previous three years?

E12.2 — Innovation in Energy and Carbon

Q: Is an innovative process or technology in place at the building that goes beyond the Requirements outlined in this section?