Healthy Buildings rulemakers grapple with reporting gaps

Healthy Buildings rulemakers grapple with reporting gaps

The city’s rulemaking group for the Healthy Buildings Ordinance (HBO) brainstormed Wednesday on how to get some of Evanston’s largest buildings to properly report their energy and water use, key data points needed to track progress on the new law’s requirement to reduce building emissions to zero by 2050. The technical committee began meeting in October, and is charged with setting standards and processes for implementing the building performanc…