BERDO/BEUDO

Since BERDO’s initial rollout in 2021, GreenerU has played a vital role in helping clients meet BERDO standards, offering practical strategies that align with each client’s resources and objectives. Our high standards of excellence helped us win a contract with the City of Boston to serve as an advisor through the City’s Building Decarbonization Advisor Program (BDAP), providing free advisory services to Boston property owners whose buildings need to comply with BERDO’s emissions reductions. Similarly, our work and leadership in the space has been recognized by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (MassDOER), where we are part of a team of firms helping low-income multifamily building owners understand how to decarbonize their buildings.

GreenerU offers services at both the individual building and portfolio-wide levels to help comply with BERDO, BEUDO, and LBER, including:

Third-party verification for reporting compliance

Boston building owners must use an energy professional to verify self-reported 2025 emissions data on ENERGY STAR® PortfolioManager® through analyzing building, square footage, and energy bills.

Facility/portfolio snapshot

• Includes third-party verification
• Building(s) walkthrough to review potential opportunities for efficiency and carbon emissions reduction strategies
• Discussions with facilities staff on challenges and opportunities
• High-level summary of potential emissions reduction opportunities to pursue
• Meeting to go through findings and recommendations and answer questions

Detailed facility/portfolio study

• Everything in the facility/portfolio snapshot listed above, plus:
• Detailed energy audit of specified properties
• Review of ventilation standards and requirements
• Survey of building energy systems and spaces
• Identification of potential energy and carbon reduction measures, project narrative, estimated costs, and estimated energy savings
• Recommendations for a carbon reduction roadmap to ensure alignment with relevant emissions reductions targets
• Summary report outlining building description, utility analysis, and potential energy and carbon reduction measures

Implementation

GreenerU also implements energy conservation and decarbonization measures to help your organization comply with BERDO/BEUDO (and oftentimes lower operating costs):

• Lighting and controls upgrades
• Building envelope upgrades including insulation, air sealing, and windows
• Heat exchange 
• Air and ground-source heat pumps
• EV charging
• Solar and more

GreenerU helps design and implement projects that meet your organization’s goals. We often take a bundled approach that provides a blend of quick payback projects (low-hanging fruit) with longer-term infrastructure upgrades. We also help identify and secure utility incentives to maximize energy savings opportunities.

Want to learn more?

You can schedule a free consultation with GreenerU to explore your options.

We look forward to supporting your institution’s path to sustainable, low-carbon buildings and assisting under-resourced and nonprofit property owners on their journey toward BERDO/BEUDO/LBER compliance.

Contact us today for more information.