Montgomery County BEPS, county-run and county-enforced.
MoCo has its own building energy performance program with its own enforcement. It does not stack with the Maryland state program, and it does not work the way DC BEPS works.
Dates and thresholds change. We confirm the current requirement for your specific building before anyone acts on it.
How the county program differs from the ones next door.
Do not port DC assumptions across the district line. Montgomery County does not run the fine-plus-payment model DC uses, it has one penalty scheme rather than two, and it enforces through the county code. An Order of Abatement is a mandatory injunction to cure, not a bill.
The county also has real transactional teeth in a place people do not expect. Energy disclosure at sale means a compliance gap becomes a diligence item in a transaction, which tends to concentrate minds faster than any notice.
What the program shares with its neighbors is the underlying arithmetic. Everything is per square foot, everything runs off benchmarking data, and the buildings that documented their work are the ones with options later.
How we run a MoCo engagement
Cure first, then negotiate. That order is not optional.
One penalty scheme, discretionary assessment, escalating by count.
The county code provides for citations, an Order of Abatement, and higher subsequent citations, with contempt available beyond that. Assessment is discretionary, so the honest answer to how much this will cost is that it depends on how quickly the building cures and what the county decides.
Two dormant state bills would raise the ceilings substantially if they were ever activated, and neither has been. We flag them because you should know they exist, not because they should drive your decision today.
What a county DEP document usually means.
Which document you are holding decides everything, so read the heading first.
Send us the letterSend 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 boards use us in MoCo
County enforcement is document-driven, and the response depends on reading the document correctly.
Montgomery County BEPS questions
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The pages that usually matter next for a Montgomery County building.
Holding a county notice? Send us the document.
We will tell you where in the ladder you are and what curing it actually takes.
Tell us what is on your plate. We will help you sort it out.
A notice, a deadline, a portfolio, or simply a question. You do not need to have it organized before you call.