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MARKETS // 50-MARKET DISCOVERY SET

HVAC intelligence, mapped across 50 U.S. markets.

Explore market-specific starting points for HVAC contractors, facilities leaders, property operators, and implementation partners. All 50 markets now have a researched baseline. San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Austin, Atlanta, Chicago, and Denver have deeper verified coverage; the remaining markets have researched baselines that require local evidence review before recommendations.

Bay Area

San Francisco

San Francisco’s all-electric requirements make HVAC scope, equipment records, service capacity, and electrical-readiness evidence increasingly connected decisions.

Bay Area

Oakland

Oakland’s electrification guidance points operators toward incentives, financing, service upgrades, and equipment planning—making readiness and workflow visibility practical first steps.

Bay Area

San Jose

San Jose’s building performance framework makes benchmarking, equipment records, and recurring operational improvement relevant for covered larger buildings—not just future capital projects.

Northern California

Sacramento

Sacramento’s existing-building electrification strategy connects commercial benchmarking, building-performance planning, and heat-pump replacement decisions. That makes current asset records and replacement timing useful operating evidence—not paperwork added after procurement.

Southern California

Los Angeles

Los Angeles’ EBEWE program makes energy and water benchmarking a recurring operating responsibility for covered existing buildings. HVAC asset records, meter data, audit evidence, and retro-commissioning workflows should be connected before modernization claims are made.

Southern California

San Diego

San Diego’s benchmarking program requires covered buildings to report annual energy data, while newer building-code pathways increase the importance of heat-pump, controls, and commissioning evidence. HVAC readiness should connect reporting, equipment, and field work.

Pacific Northwest

Seattle

Seattle is included in Slyyyde’s major-market discovery set. Local code, incentive, labor, portfolio, and equipment evidence must be verified before a city-specific recommendation or deployment claim is made.

Texas

Austin

Austin’s ECAD ordinance applies annual benchmarking requirements to covered commercial buildings served by Austin Energy. HVAC evidence should connect the building rating, equipment inventory, controls, commissioning, and field-service plan before a retrofit decision.

Southeast

Atlanta

Atlanta’s Commercial Buildings Energy Efficiency Ordinance links annual energy and water benchmarking with periodic audit requirements for covered properties. The operating opportunity is to connect Portfolio Manager evidence, ASHRAE audit findings, controls, and actual maintenance capacity.

Midwest

Chicago

Chicago’s energy benchmarking ordinance covers large commercial, institutional, and residential buildings and requires recurring reporting with periodic verification. The useful operating layer connects whole-building data to heating, cooling, controls, maintenance, and capital planning.

Mountain West

Denver

Denver’s Energize Denver program requires covered buildings to benchmark annually and work toward building-specific performance targets. HVAC replacement timing, electrification, controls, and third-party data verification should be managed as one evidence-backed operating plan.

Mid-Atlantic

Baltimore

Maryland benchmarking requirements make annual building data, equipment identity, and audit readiness relevant for covered Baltimore properties. HVAC planning should connect reporting evidence to actual service and capital decisions.

New England

Boston

Boston’s BERDO framework makes energy, emissions, verification, and HVAC operating evidence material for covered large buildings. The useful layer is connecting reporting to staffed work and capital sequencing.

Southeast

Charlotte

Charlotte has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Ohio Valley

Cincinnati

Cincinnati has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Great Lakes

Cleveland

Cleveland has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Ohio

Columbus

Columbus benchmarking requirements for large buildings make annual data, verification, and HVAC asset records part of the same operating conversation.

North Texas

Dallas

Dallas has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Great Lakes

Detroit

Detroit’s benchmarking requirements for large buildings create a practical need to connect whole-building data with HVAC equipment, controls, and maintenance evidence.

North Texas

Fort Worth

Fort Worth has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Central Valley

Fresno

Fresno has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Gulf Coast

Houston

Houston has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Midwest

Indianapolis

Indianapolis has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Southeast

Jacksonville

Jacksonville has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Midwest

Kansas City

Kansas City has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Desert Southwest

Las Vegas

Las Vegas has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Arizona

Mesa

Mesa has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

South Florida

Miami

Miami’s benchmarking and retuning requirements make HVAC, controls, ventilation, and maintenance evidence especially relevant in a hot-humid operating environment.

Great Lakes

Milwaukee

Milwaukee has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Upper Midwest

Minneapolis

Minneapolis combines recurring building energy reporting with a strong cold-climate operating context. HVAC planning should connect heating assets, controls, seasonal readiness, and verification evidence.

Southeast

Nashville

Nashville has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Gulf Coast

New Orleans

New Orleans has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

New York

New York City

New York City Local Law 84 requires recurring benchmarking for covered buildings. HVAC operating intelligence should connect annual data submission, equipment condition, controls, and building-specific retrofit constraints.

Great Plains

Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Great Plains

Omaha

Omaha has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Central Florida

Orlando

Orlando’s BEAM workflow connects annual benchmarking, data quality, and periodic building-system review for covered large buildings. HVAC evidence should be ready for both reporting and operating decisions.

Mid-Atlantic

Philadelphia

Philadelphia’s covered-building benchmarking program makes annual energy data and periodic verification part of the operating context for large properties. HVAC records should be ready before reporting and retrofit decisions.

Arizona

Phoenix

Phoenix’s cooling-dominant climate makes rooftop equipment, controls, peak demand, and service capacity central to commercial HVAC readiness. Local programs can support efficiency work, but building evidence still comes first.

Ohio Valley

Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Pacific Northwest

Portland

Portland’s annual benchmarking requirement for larger commercial buildings creates a direct operating link between energy reporting, HVAC controls, and retrofit planning. PCEF can inform eligible efficiency work, but not guarantee project outcomes.

North Carolina

Raleigh

Raleigh has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Virginia

Richmond

Richmond’s energy-efficiency and C-PACE context can support HVAC and controls modernization, while local requirements and project economics still require property-specific review.

South Texas

San Antonio

San Antonio has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Midwest

St. Louis

St. Louis has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

West Florida

Tampa

Tampa has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Arizona

Tucson

Tucson’s hot-dry operating context and commercial energy-code requirements make HVAC efficiency, controls, and heat-season service readiness central to local planning.

Great Plains

Tulsa

Tulsa has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Virginia

Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach has a researched market baseline connecting its official municipal portal, regional energy resources, and national building-performance guidance to HVAC operating questions. Local thresholds, utility programs, codes, labor conditions, and project evidence still require confirmation before a market-specific recommendation.

Mid-Atlantic

Washington, DC

Washington, DC’s Building Energy Performance Standard connects benchmarking, energy use, and performance targets. HVAC readiness requires a traceable chain from reported data to assets, controls, and field execution.

Hawaii

Honolulu

Honolulu’s Better Buildings Benchmarking Program requires recurring energy and water reporting for covered commercial and multifamily buildings. HVAC readiness should connect reporting evidence with tropical-climate service and retrofit constraints.