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Honeydew in Washington State

Everything we manage for a Washington 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 Washington
Compliance Benchmarking and the Clean Buildings Performance Standard Tiered, from 20,000 sq ft, filed with Washington State Commerce.
Deadline June 2026 to 2028, and July 2027 Tier 1 runs by size band: over 220,000 sq ft by June 1, 2026, 90,001 to 220,000 by June 1, 2027, and 50,001 to 90,000 by June 1, 2028. Tier 2 is due July 1, 2027.
Verification Required Washington does not audit your data. It requires a credentialed Qualified Person to sign the compliance documents.
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 Washington.

A covered building in Washington 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
Per building, not per campus
Commerce tests a single building rather than the aggregate of a campus, and parking is excluded. Center totals over-tier and over-count every time.
Watch the band inversion
A building just under 50,000 sq ft is due eleven months earlier than one just over it. Anything within a few thousand feet of that line should be planned to the earlier date.
Late extensions are allowed
Extensions can be filed up to six months after a missed deadline and last two years. Check that before panicking about a missed date.
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

A performance standard you can owe without ever having benchmarked.

Because Washington targets are absolute and published in advance, the obligation does not depend on a benchmarking history. That catches owners who assume no filing means no exposure.

We also do not sell Washington work on data urgency, because the utilities backfill retroactively. The honest lead-time item is the plan and programme work, not the data.

Received a letter?

What a Commerce letter usually means.

Washington publishes no covered building list, so the letter is how you learn you are covered.

Send us the letter
Building Owner Notification Letter
Commerce’s notice that your building is subject to the standard, with its tier and date. If you have not received one and think you should have, request it rather than waiting.
Non-compliance notice
Enforcement is notice-driven. Before assuming penalty exposure, check the extension window, which stays open up to six months after a missed deadline and is valid for two years.

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 Washington

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 plus an energy management plan and an operations and maintenance programme, submitted by July 1, 2027. No energy use intensity target applies to Tier 2, and the plan and programme are expected to be up and running before the filing date, which in practice means during 2026.

Most residential condominiums and cooperatives are excluded from the state standard, though Seattle buildings can still be covered by the city programme. That distinction catches boards out, so we confirm both.

Yes, the state runs an early adopter incentive programme, and it has covered a meaningful share of compliance cost for buildings that moved early. We check eligibility before quoting the work.

No, and this is the most important misunderstanding in Washington. The targets are absolute and published in advance, so a building can owe a performance standard without ever having benchmarked.

Possibly not. Extensions can be filed up to six months after a missed deadline and are valid for two years. That is the first thing we check.

Keep reading

The pages that usually matter next for a Washington building.

Annual filing Benchmarking in Washington The annual filing, what is reported, and how we keep the record clean. Performance standard BEPS in Washington The performance standard, the pathways, and what the exposure really is. Qualified Person Verification in Washington 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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