Christy Cannon
CEM
Yardi Systems, Inc. | Solutions Consultant
Speaker
Track J: Professional Development
Session J1: Women Championing an Energy Efficient Future
September 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Session J1 Chairperson
Track F: Building Performance
Session F2: Building Performance Standards
September 18, 2025 | 9:00 am - 9:30 am
A Distillation of Building Performance Standards
| Also known as “Beyond Benchmarking”, Building Performance Standards are popping up around the US and Canada in cities, counties, provinces and states. To date, there are over 50 programs, with new ones announced monthly. These newer programs are the next step beyond simply reporting building scores – they now seek to enforce actual performance standards. They offer different compliance pathway options when building performance falls short. Some programs require ASHRAE Level 2 audits, retro commissioning and/or re-tuning. Some of them have serious penalties in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars… per building. Other penalties include loss of your business license, denied occupancy permits and property liens on unpaid penalties.What you don’t know CAN hurt you. Join this session to see the listing of the current programs, where to go to get the latest information on them and a distillation of their requirements and penalties for non-compliance. |
Speaker Bio
Christy Cannon is a Certified Energy Manager with 15 years of experience, holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, a minor in Physics and two years of postgraduate Civil Engineering study. With over two decades in the energy industry, she navigated the Texas electric market deregulation of 2002, represented 120 Texas cities in ERCOT Retail Market Subcommittee meetings and testified before the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission on retail market health. Her expertise spans building utility tariff modeling databases, conducting ASHRAE audits, and teaching peak demand management and electric market economics to city leaders. At Yardi Systems, she focuses on real-time metering, data acquisition, and building system alerting tools.