Looking Ahead: What’s Next in Building Performance
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AESP is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). AESP complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As a result of this accreditation, AESP is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. AESP instructors disclose in advance that they have no interest in any product, service, or material discussed during the course. This information is stated orally and in the training course handbook.As building performance standards continue to evolve, there is growing interest in new approaches that could accelerate decarbonization—but many of these ideas have yet to be tested at scale.
In this session of the BPS in Practice: What Regulators, Evaluators and Program Designers Need to Get Right series, you’ll explore what’s next for building performance, including emerging strategies, persistent barriers, and the conditions needed to support innovation. We’ll look at why experimentation can be difficult in risk-averse environments and what it takes to move new ideas forward.
You’ll gain practical strategies for building support, designing effective pilots and creating opportunities to learn from both successes and challenges.
Whether you’re shaping programs, policies, or pilots, this session will help you think ahead and identify opportunities to drive meaningful progress.
You’ll leave this session able to:
• Recall promising approaches that haven’t yet been implemented at scale
• Explain the barriers that prevent experimentation in the current landscape
• Analyze institutional risk factors that inhibit innovation
• Evaluate strategies for creating space for experimental approaches
• Design experiments that generate learning regardless of outcome
Course Designer
”Faith
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Faith DeBolt brings 20+ years of leadership in energy consulting, policy, and program development. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston with additional graduate studies at the University of Washington. Ms. DeBolt is a thought-leader in performance-based approaches to reducing energy use and carbon emissions in buildings. She served on the Northwest Strategic Energy Management Collaborative Leadership Team and the Energy Trust of Oregon Evaluation Advisory Group, and has presented multiple papers at ACEEE Summer Study and IEPEC conferences.
Instructor
”Anna
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Anna Kelly brings 10+ years of expertise in energy efficiency evaluation, M&V methodology, and building performance standards. She has served as Chair of the North American Strategic Energy Management Collaborative and Chair of RESNET SDC1600 (CO2e Emissions from Metered Data), and on the CMVP certification board. At Power TakeOff, she led M&V operations processing 1,200+ energy models daily for 26 utilities and designed Colorado’s statewide Industrial SEM program. She is Author of Climate Champions (Springer, 2023) and Good Work forthcoming” (Springer, 2026), has 16+ peer-reviewed publications, and received the 2023 AEE Young Energy Professional of the Year International Award. Clients served include CPUC, PG&E, Seattle OSE, WA Commerce, OR DOE, Duke Energy, Xcel Energy and Energy Trust of Oregon.