Multifamily Buildings
Property owners and tenants: Looking for recycling requirements for multifamily buildings? Go to Recycling Rules Alameda County.
In 2017, the StopWaste Energy Council received a $1 million grant from the California Energy Commission to manage a project that will increase the number of energy upgrades in the California's existing multifamily buildings through policy research and tool development.
Grant Deliverables
Low-Cost Assessment Tool
StopWaste
Rental Housing Potential Study
For more information, contact Ben Cooper.
Multifamily Benchmarking Report
Recommendations to Improve Tenant Access to Energy Efficiency Data
Convening of the Multifamily Home Energy Retrofit Coordinating Committee (MF HERCC)
Since 2010, StopWaste has convened the Multifamily Subcommittee of the U.S. EPA's California Home Energy Retrofit Coordinating Committee.
As chair of the MF HERCC, StopWaste works with stakeholders in the multifamily sector to develop multifamily energy upgrade program design recommendations and standards. These recommendations have influenced the design of ratepayer-funded multifamily energy upgrade programs, leading to increased participation.
Multifamily Legacy Projects
StopWaste first published these comprehensive planning, design and construction resources in the mid-2000's. The guidelines were thoroughly researched by building industry experts, and vetted by stakeholders including local government staff, architects, project managers and developers. StopWaste's Green Building Guidelines and Multifamily Green Building Guidelines helped accelerate the adoption of green building principles and practices regionally and nationally.
With support from StopWaste, the guidelines became the foundation for Build It Green's influential GreenPoint Rated certification programs for single-family and multifamily buildings.
StopWaste worked with Build It Green and ICLEI to develop the nation's first third-party verified residential green building calculator designed to measure the greenhouse gas emissions related to building green homes.