Resource Library
Our comprehensive resource library offers building professionals guidance and insights from project teams and experts to inform the development of effective decarbonization roadmaps for their properties. This living platform hosts a growing collection of invaluable resources, including case studies, technical guides, best practices, and educational materials, all geared towards promoting the adoption and success of low-carbon retrofits, and a more sustainable future in building design and operation.
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High Rise | Low Carbon Multifamily
A global survey of 14 high-rise multifamily retrofit profiles that achieved deep energy reductions.
Retrofit Playbook Event Series: The Transformative Impact of Charrettes
How can project teams transform their thinking about building decarbonization and generate cogent plans that incorporate long-term flexibility to future-proof their assets? Given the urgent need to reduce building emissions, taking advantage of collaborative problem-solving…
Retrofit Playbook Event Series: Platform Launch with New Empire Building Challenge Multifamily Winners
Are you a multifamily building owner or manager trying to meet your Local Law 97 obligations? Are you a solution provider looking for a better way to assist your clients with complex decarbonization projects? Join Building Energy…
Large Building Decarbonization Price Index
A resource dedicated to assisting designers and building industry professionals to track pricing and lead times for equipment essential to implementing building decarbonization projects.
Building Discovery
A guide for assessing building conditions to identify energy efficiency opportunities.
Decarbonization Roadmap for Multifamily Affordable Housing
This best practice manual is designed for multifamily affordable housing deep retrofits.
Energy & Carbon Modeling Guide
A process guide for developing an energy model to support building decarbonization planning.
High Rise / Low Carbon Event Series: Take the Heat!
Webinar featuring projects deploying breakthrough heating & cooling recovery solutions across the commercial and multifamily buildings sector.
High Rise / Low Carbon Event Series: Keep the Outside Out
Webinar on high-performance envelope retrofits for maintaining quality indoor environments and reducing heating/cooling demand.
High Rise / Low Carbon Event Series: Advanced Ventilation Goes Mainstream
Webinar on modern ventilation systems and their role in building electrification.
Low Carbon Multifamily Retrofit Playbooks
Multifamily playbooks with strategies for buildings transitioning to electric systems.
Empire Technology Prize
This technology competition for solution providers seeks innovative heating solutions to reduce greenhouse gases in NYC's tall buildings.
Urban Green Council’s Grid Ready Report
A study on the impact of heat pump conversion on NYC’s electricity grid needs.
High Rise / Low Carbon Event Series: Sharing Heat
Webinar on hydronic systems, thermal networks, and waste heat recovery, supporting the Empire Building Challenge.
Training & Educational Resources for Building Stakeholders
A collection of educational opportunities for stakeholders interested in high-performance buildings.
Thermal Energy Networks for Decarbonization Webinar
Webinar reviewing new design strategies for low carbon retrofit technologies, with a focus on thermal energy networks.
Empire Technology Prize Market Insight Report
This report highlights technical challenges and market opportunities of heating system decarbonization.
That’s everything we have so far, new resources are added to the library regularly.
