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Verification and GFA in Colorado

Colorado verification, triggered by what you ask for.

Building Performance Colorado has no blanket annual verification requirement. Third-party data verification becomes mandatory when you apply for an adjusted performance target, which is exactly when the data starts deciding money.

No obligation. We will tell you if you do not need us.
When verification applies here
Annual filing No verification required The reporting obligation itself does not carry a verification requirement.
Target adjustment Verification required An application for an adjusted target has to include a third-party data verification checklist alongside each year of benchmarking data.
Who may verify A credentialed third party Independent review of the benchmarking record rather than a self-certification.
Denver is separate Its own cycle A Denver building has a city verification requirement on the city schedule. Deemed compliance covers the state performance standard only.

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

The verification is the price of admission to a better target.

Most jurisdictions put verification on a calendar. Colorado puts it on a request. If your building can live with the statewide target as published, nothing obliges you to verify anything. If you want the state to set a different target for your building, the application requires third-party data verification of the benchmarking record it will be based on.

That makes the sequencing unusually clear. Verification is not overhead here, it is the cost of the argument you are making, so it should be scoped after you know whether an adjustment is worth pursuing. We model the position first and quote the verification second.

Watch the calendar around it, because Colorado runs a season rather than a date. Reporting runs July through November 1, waivers are due October 1 and extensions October 15. Buildings that discover in October that they need verified data for an adjustment application have usually lost that year.

What we need from you
Drawings with a scale
Dimension callouts and a scale bar. Marketing floor plans do not qualify.
Recorded property data
Assessor area, plats, and any prior verification. Contradictions are useful, not awkward.
Your deadline
So we can tell you honestly whether the timeline still works.
The services behind this page

How verification runs

Screening first. That step alone saves most clients a round trip.

1
Document screening
Per-document verdicts against the acceptance test, plus the ask-for-better-documents email if it is needed.
2
Scope and quote
Priced on building complexity rather than a flat rate. You get the number before we start.
3
Verify
Area verified, data reviewed, and differences documented rather than smoothed over.
4
Correct the record
Verified figures go into the benchmarking record, which is where they start affecting your position.
5
File on time
Verified filing submitted ahead of the deadline with documentation attached.
If verification slips

The risk here is a missed option, not a missed filing.

Colorado penalties on the reporting obligation are published amounts and they are survivable. The expensive mistake is different: arriving at a target year without having pursued an adjustment, because the verified data was never assembled in time to apply for one.

A Denver building has both clocks running. State and city are separate obligations, benchmarking files to both portals, and the state fee is still due either way.

Received a letter?

What a Colorado Energy Office letter usually means.

Colorado letters are seasonal, and the dates inside them matter more than the letter itself.

Send us the letter
Reporting season notice
Reporting runs July through November 1, with waivers due October 1 and extensions October 15. Missing those earlier dates is how buildings lose options.
Fee or penalty notice
The five hundred dollar annual per-building fee, or a penalty for a missed season. Penalties currently run at published amounts of $577 and $2,300 rather than the older figures still quoted online.

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 verification sits with us

It is a core service here rather than an add-on, and we run it across jurisdictions with different rules about who may verify.

Credentialed
Certified Energy Manager on staff, Portfolio Manager specialists, and the credentials the verification work requires.
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.
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.
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

Verification questions

No. Building Performance Colorado does not attach a verification requirement to the annual reporting obligation. Verification comes in when you apply for an adjusted performance target.

When an adjustment is worth pursuing. The application requires a third-party data verification checklist with each year of benchmarking data, so we model the target position first and scope verification only if the adjustment case is real.

No. Denver has its own verification requirement on the city schedule, and the June 1, 2026 dates have passed. If an extension was approved it carries a hard published date rather than an open window, so a Denver building should be triaged now.

Published amounts of $577 and $2,300, which are lower than the older figures still circulating in Regulation 28 summaries online. The annual fee is $500 per covered building, and public buildings are exempt from both.

Keep reading

The pages that usually matter next for a Colorado building.

Annual filing Benchmarking in Colorado The annual filing, what is reported, and how we keep the record clean. Performance standard BEPS in Colorado The performance standard, the pathways, and what the exposure really is. Everything we do here Full services in Colorado Everything Honeydew manages here, compliance and energy services together.
What is BEPS? All Honeydew services Every region we serve Latest rule changes on the blog

Before you pay for verification, find out if you need it.

We model your position against the published target first. If an adjustment is not worth pursuing, the verification is not either.

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