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Everything we manage for a Boulder building.

Compliance is how most clients meet us. Verification, supply where the market allows it, solar screening and bill auditing are why they stay.

No obligation. We will tell you if you do not need us.
What we run in Boulder
Compliance Benchmarking and the Boulder Building Performance Ordinance 50,000 sq ft, commercial only, filed with the City of Boulder.
Deadline June 1, annual No deemed compliance here, so a covered commercial building files with the city and the state and pays the state fee.
Verification Not required today We still verify floor area, because every metric here is per square foot.
Energy supply Regulated market No retail choice here, so the savings work is efficiency, incentives and bill auditing.

Dates and thresholds change. We confirm the current requirement for your specific building before anyone acts on it.

How the pieces fit together in Boulder.

A covered building in Boulder is dealing with an annual filing, a set of local rules that change more often than anyone expects, and a capital plan that has to satisfy an owner or a board. Handled separately, those generate vendors who do not talk to each other.

We are the accountable partner across all of it. We are not engineers and we do not pretend to be. We make sense of the rules, verify the data, bring in the right specialists, and give the building a plan it can act on.

The practical benefit is that the data gets built once. The same verified floor area and clean utility record that drives your compliance position also drives a supply bid, an incentive application, or a solar screening.

Local detail that changes the answer
Commercial and industrial only
Condominiums, cooperatives and residential multifamily are outside the ordinance. That is a real scope reduction for the right building.
No deemed compliance
Covered commercial buildings file with the city and the state, and the state fee still applies.
Prescriptive, not numeric
Audits, lighting and retrocommissioning on a schedule. Compliance is about completing work, not hitting a target.
The services behind this page

How we start

Deadline work first. Everything else on your schedule.

1
Position review
Coverage, current data, floor area, and what is outstanding.
2
Close the compliance gap
Filings, verification where it applies, and any notice response.
3
Review energy supply and procurement
No retail choice here, so we review rate class, tariff fit and billing errors instead.
4
Screen the opportunities
Incentives, solar, audits, and measures that also improve the compliance position.
5
Manage it forward
One point of contact, one set of numbers, and reminders that arrive before the deadline.
Why now

Two filings for commercial buildings, and none for condominiums.

Boulder is the jurisdiction where knowing the coverage line saves the most money. Commercial buildings owe two filings and a state fee. Residential buildings owe the state only.

Because the regime is prescriptive, the compliance record is a documentation exercise: proof that the audit happened, the lighting was done, and the retrocommissioning was completed on schedule.

Received a letter?

What a Boulder notice usually means.

Boulder letters are usually about the prescriptive schedule.

Send us the letter
Building Performance Ordinance notice
A benchmarking filing, audit, lighting or retrocommissioning requirement is due. The ordinance covers commercial and industrial buildings only.
State programme correspondence
Because Boulder has no deemed compliance, a covered commercial building receives state letters too and owes the state fee.

Send us the letter itself, not a summary. We read it for the six things that decide the response: who sent it, which building and identifier it names, what period it covers, what it says you failed to do, the cure date, and whether it is a first notice or an escalation. We never quote a running penalty total, and we cure first, then talk to the regulator.

Why Honeydew in Boulder

One relationship across twenty-six jurisdictions, with local rules tracked rather than assumed.

One accountable partner
We are not engineers and we do not pretend to be. We manage the process, coordinate the right vendors, and own the outcome.
We read the primary sources
Twenty-six jurisdictions, each with its own portal, deadline and enforcement style. We work from the ordinance, the regulator’s FAQ and the covered building list, not from last year’s memory.
Credentialed
Certified Energy Manager on staff, Portfolio Manager specialists, and the credentials the verification work requires.
Built for boards
Most of our clients are condo and co-op boards and the managers who serve them. We present in plain English, on your meeting schedule.
Owners and managers we work with
FirstService Residential Legum & Norman EJF Real Estate Services Comsource Management Barkan Management Howard University Regency Centers Montgomery County Green Bank

Questions about each of these services

With whatever has a date on it. Usually that is the filing or the standard, and the supply and advisory work follows once the compliance position is clean. We would rather earn the second engagement than bundle it.

Yes, and we do it constantly. A clear thirty-minute presentation is often what unlocks a decision.

A separate residential rental requirement that applies to individually rented units rather than to an association. It is often confused with the commercial ordinance and it should not be.

The city has been moving toward pulling larger multifamily into the ordinance. We watch that rather than assume it, and we will tell you when it affects your building.

No. The Building Performance Ordinance covers commercial and industrial buildings only. A Boulder condominium at 50,000 sq ft owes the state programme alone.

No. Boulder has no deemed compliance, so a covered commercial building files both and pays the state fee.

Keep reading

The pages that usually matter next for a Boulder building.

Annual filing Benchmarking in Boulder The annual filing, what is reported, and how we keep the record clean. Performance standard BEPS in Boulder The performance standard, the pathways, and what the exposure really is.
What is BEPS? All Honeydew services Every region we serve Latest rule changes on the blog

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