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Building solutions for climate change

Our mission is to decarbonize buildings for healthy and resilient communities.

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Forward Now: The Campaign for Urban Green

Support Urban Green's work during this crucial moment for climate action.

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Local Law 97

Local Law 97

NYC’s groundbreaking climate legislation sets carbon emissions caps for large buildings that began in 2024.

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Explore our NYC building data hub

Learn more about NYC's buildings and their energy use in this interactive data hub.

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We educate building professionals

We train people who design, construct and operate buildings locally and nationally.

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Building Tomorrow: Conversations with Climate Solvers

Building Tomorrow demystifies complex ideas about buildings, and introduces you to the people doing the work!

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Upcoming events

EP Spring Happy Hour

April 24, 2025

Join us at Honey's for the Emerging Professionals Committee's first happy hour of the year!

NYC Next: Shaping Building Decarbonization

June 2, 2025

Join us on June 2 for an inside look at the trends shaping the future of NYC's buildings!

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Recent publications

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Cool Switch

Replacing central ACs with heat pumps is a sleeper electrification opportunity for many New York homes.

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The next step in benchmarking NYC buildings

A proposed bill would expand NYC’s annual energy and water benchmarking law to buildings larger than 10,000 square feet.

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How Intro 772 would impact LL97

A City Council bill introduced last April aims to significantly weaken Local Law 97 for co-ops, condos and garden-apartment complexes.

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What you need to know about the 2024 LL97 rulemaking

On September 27, the NYC Department of Buildings launched a third major rulemaking for LL97. Here’s what you need to know.

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Explore the resource library

Videos and podcasts

LL97 Offsets: The Affordable Housing Reinvestment Fund

April 8, 2025

Learn how you can use AHRF offsets for LL97 compliance.

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Decarbonizing Con Edison’s district steam (w/ Matthew Ketschke)

March 21, 2025

Hear from Con Edison President Matthew Ketschke about plans to decarbonize NYC's district steam.

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5 years after Covid: Healthy building trends to know (w/ Dr. Joe Allen)

February 20, 2025

In a special fifth anniversary episode, Dr. Joe Allen discusses ways to improve indoor air quality and shares the healthy building trends you need to know.

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