Mission

To promote green building through stringent energy codes and benchmarks, education and awareness, incentives and retrofitting thereby creating new jobs.

Proposed Goals:

• Retrofit 100% of buildings for 50% energy reductions,
• Retrofit 50% of buildings to net zero,
• Retrofit 25% of buildings to be energy producers, and
• New construction to meet LEED standards or equivalent.

Contacts

Michele Kilroy, Northeast Ohio Green Building Coalition, mkilroy@clevelandgbc.org
Mandy Metcalf, Environmental Health Watch, MMetcalf@ehw.org

Projects

• In February, 2010 the Green Building Retrofitting sub-group planned the first steps to reach their goal of retrofitting all 130,000 buildings in the City of Cleveland by 2019. The group started a timeline, and formed two committees to address the issue. Read more.
• The Green Building Codes sub-group drafted a letter of support for the city of Cleveland to adopt the International Code Council's 2009 building code.

Updates

Feb. 11, 2010 – The retrofits sub-group was invited by Cleveland Sustainability Chief Andrew Watterson to advise the city on its residential energy retrofit project. The 2019 group will align the goals of the pilot (100 homes) and full-scale energy retrofit program (proposed 2,100 homes) with its goal of 100% retrofits by 2019. Read more.  

At the Nov. 17 Outcome Groups showcase, Kilroy provided the following updates:

• The Retrofits sub-group is researching a 'Pay as you save' model of energy efficiency for cities, and metrics.
• The Codes sub-group completed and sent to Mayor Jackson a letter of support for the International Code Council's building code with the goal of adoption by the city of Cleveland and State of Ohio.
• Model blocks to perform weatherization projects will be identified.
• A marketing campaign for a Cleveland green building standard is being discussed.
• Outreach to the 2019 Advanced Energy group is being pursued. 

Next Meeting 

The Energy Retrofits Sub-Committee meets the second Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Cleveland Environmental Center, 3500 Lorain Avenue.

The Building Codes Sub-Committee meets the last Wednesday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Environmental Center.