St. Louis encourages green construction through the Climate Action Plan, building benchmarking ordinance for large buildings, and incentive programs aligned with the Form-Based Code and adopted energy code.
St. Louis adopted a Building Energy Performance Standard (BEPS) requiring large commercial and multifamily buildings to benchmark and gradually improve energy use intensity. The 2017 Climate Action Plan set carbon reduction targets and supports green roof, solar, and electric-vehicle infrastructure incentives. The city follows the International Energy Conservation Code as adopted under Title X. Form-Based Code provisions encourage compact, mixed-use, transit-oriented projects. Tax abatement and tax-increment-financing requests increasingly require LEED, Enterprise Green Communities, or comparable certification, especially for projects involving public subsidy.
BEPS noncompliance brings escalating fines for owners of covered buildings; failing to meet energy code triggers permit holds and certificate-of-occupancy delays; misreporting benchmarking data is a code violation.
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