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U.S. Department of Energy Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Commercial Building Energy Asset Score Program Development

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a Request for Information (RFI) on August 08, 2011, to seek the input of stakeholders and interested parties regarding the asset score program. Additionally, DOE held a webinar on August 23, 2011, focus groups in November 2011, and a stakeholder workshop in December 2011. Learn more about these activities, which have informed the development of the program:

A second RFI was issued February 07, 2013 to seek the input of stakeholders and interested parties regarding the updated version of the asset score program. DOE held a webinar on February 20, 2013, that provided an updated overview of the program, scoring tool, and the RFI. The RFI, supporting documentation, and webinar materials are available below:

Development of the Commercial Building Energy Asset Score

The rollout of the asset score program has been organized in a phased approach, focusing first on building types that are simplest to understand and about which there is more information to establish a scoring system:

  • Phase I includes office, school, retail, and unrefrigerated warehouse buildings.
  • Phase II includes library, lodging, multi-family housing, courthouse, and religious worship buildings, as well as mixed-use buildings that incorporate Phase I and II use types.
  • Phase III buildings are those with more complex systems or a limited body of information to establish a scoring system, such as data centers, laboratories, refrigerated warehouse, health-care facilities, food service, food sales, and so on.