Building Performance and Decarbonization Planning Guide

Implement Your Decarbonization Plan

Step Three: Develop Your Decarbonization Plan

This section provides a brief overview of important steps to implementing your decarbonization plan. It includes best practices for turning your plan into action by creating and reviewing an Request for Proposals (RFP) or Request for Quote (RFQ), selecting team members, and incorporating measurement and verification (commonly called M&V). 

A. Define the Scope of Work and Assemble Your Team

Once you've developed your decarbonization plan, it's time to define your scope and plans for implementation and refinement. Here you’ll find best practices around developing your scope and high-level procurement options for common types of work.

B. Establish Verification Plan

How to create a plan to verify your investment is going to work as intended.  

C. Implement Your Plan

Solid execution and commissioning during the implementation process is critical to ensure the success of your decarbonization project.

D. Evaluate Your Progress

Check your work, adjust your processes as needed, and celebrate successes.