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Everything we manage for a Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia
Compliance Benchmarking and the Building Energy Performance Programme 50,000 sq ft and up, filed with the City of Philadelphia.
Deadline June 30, annual City deadline for the annual benchmarking filing.
Verification Not required today We still verify floor area, because every metric here is per square foot.
Energy supply and procurement Deregulated Pennsylvania has retail choice on electricity and gas, so supply can be competitively bid.

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

How the pieces fit together in Philadelphia.

A covered building in Philadelphia 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
Two programmes, not one
Annual benchmarking is only half of it. The Building Energy Performance Programme runs a separate five-year tune-up cycle for non-residential buildings, and we check both every time.
Tune-up dates catch people
Larger non-residential buildings have tune-up reporting obligations on their own schedule, separate from the June 30 filing.
City only
Pennsylvania has no statewide mandate, so a Philadelphia filing is the whole obligation. That is simpler than most jurisdictions we work in.
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
Rate class, contract end dates, and whether competitively bidding your energy supply makes sense this year.
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

The tune-up cycle is where Philadelphia buildings get caught.

Most owners know about the June 30 benchmarking filing. Far fewer know that the Building Energy Performance Programme requires a periodic tune-up for non-residential buildings on a separate cycle, with its own reporting.

A building that has filed benchmarking faithfully for years can still be out of compliance on the tune-up side, which is why we screen both obligations at intake rather than assuming.

Received a letter?

What a Philadelphia notice usually means.

The city runs two programmes and the letter will be about one of them.

Send us the letter
Benchmarking non-compliance
The annual June 30 filing is missing or incomplete for the year named.
Building Energy Performance Programme notice
A tune-up is due or overdue for your cycle. Buildings with perfect benchmarking records receive these, because the obligations are separate.

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 Philadelphia

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.

Benchmarking is the annual data filing. The tune-up is a periodic operational requirement for non-residential buildings, with its own reporting and its own schedule. They are separate obligations and you can be compliant on one and not the other.

No. There is no statewide Pennsylvania mandate, so Philadelphia is the whole obligation for a city building.

If the building is non-residential and 50,000 sq ft or above, yes. They are separate obligations on separate schedules, and one does not satisfy the other.

No. An audit tells you what could be done. A tune-up requires the operational corrections to actually be made and documented. The tune-up is the cheaper of the two in most buildings.

Usually yes, for the house and common-area accounts. Individually metered residential accounts are the residents’ own decision.

Keep reading

The pages that usually matter next for a Philadelphia building.

Annual filing Benchmarking in Philadelphia The annual filing, what is reported, and how we keep the record clean. Performance standard BEPS in Philadelphia The performance standard, the pathways, and what the exposure really is. Supply strategy Procurement in Philadelphia Where competitive supply is actually available, and where it is not.
What is BEPS? All Honeydew services Every region we serve Latest rule changes on the blog

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