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Everything we manage for a Seattle 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 Seattle
Compliance Benchmarking and Seattle BEPS and Building Tune-Ups 20,000 sq ft and up, filed with the City of Seattle.
Deadline June 1, annual A new city portal launched in mid 2026, so the submission path should be re-verified before filing.
Verification Required Seattle requires verification on the BEPS schedule, and the verifier cannot be whoever filed the benchmarking.
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 Seattle.

A covered building in Seattle 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
Seattle fully stacks
The city programme and the state standard are separate. Two filings, neither satisfying the other.
Check the tune-up off-ramps first
Nine alternative compliance paths exist and two can be answered from public data in minutes. Always check before scoping the work.
Verifier independence
Whoever files the benchmarking cannot verify it, which shapes how the engagement is structured.
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 programmes running in parallel, with different clocks.

A covered Seattle building has a city obligation and a state obligation on separate schedules, and completing one does nothing for the other. That is the single most expensive misunderstanding here.

The city publishes enough open data that we can establish your position, building count and performance history before asking you for a single document.

Received a letter?

What a Seattle letter usually means.

Seattle stacks with the state, so first establish which programme sent it.

Send us the letter
Benchmarking non-compliance
The June 1 city filing is missing. Fines for the 2025 data year were waived during the portal transition, though the obligation stands.
Tune-up or emissions standard notice
A tune-up is due for your size band, or the emissions performance schedule is being confirmed. Two of the nine tune-up alternative paths can be checked from public data in minutes.

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 Seattle

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 qualified person, and it cannot be whoever prepared the annual benchmarking report. The same credentials work for the state standard, so one person or vendor can serve both laws even though the filings are separate.

Annual penalties currently run to four thousand dollars for buildings of 50,000 sq ft or more and two thousand for buildings between 20,000 and 49,999 sq ft, and they compound until the filing is made. Fines for the 2025 data year were waived during the portal transition, though the obligation stands.

Tune-ups are being wound down after the current cycle as the emissions performance standard takes over, so the question for a mid-size building is whether it still has an open tune-up obligation before that transition. We check that rather than assume it lapsed.

Possibly. There are nine alternative compliance paths and two of them are answerable from public data in minutes. We check those first because it costs nothing to look.

No. Seattle fully stacks with the state standard. They are two filings and neither satisfies the other.

Keep reading

The pages that usually matter next for a Seattle building.

Annual filing Benchmarking in Seattle The annual filing, what is reported, and how we keep the record clean. Performance standard BEPS in Seattle The performance standard, the pathways, and what the exposure really is. Third-party Verification in Seattle Third-party data verification and the square footage work that moves every number.
What is BEPS? All Honeydew services Every region we serve Latest rule changes on the blog

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