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The '''Building Performance Database''' ('''BPD''') is an anonymized database that contains [[energy use intensity]] data for hundreds of thousands of buildings in the [[United States]]. It is built by the [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]] in the [[United States]] and maintained by the [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]].<ref name=official>{{cite web|url=http://bpd.lbl.gov|title = DOE Building Performance Database|access-date = June 20, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://energy.gov/eere/buildings/building-performance-database|title = Building Performance Database|publisher = [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]], [[United States]]|access-date = June 20, 2014}}</ref> Users can examine specific building types and geographic areas, compare performance trends among similar buildings, identify and prioritize cost-saving energy efficiency improvements, and assess the range of likely savings from these improvements.

==History==

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The BPD was launched in June 2013 with data from over 60,000 commercial and residential buildings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.energymanagertoday.com/free-building-performance-database-includes-60000-records-092854/|title = Free Building Performance Database Includes 60,000 Records|last = Hardesty|first = Linda|date = June 18, 2013|access-date = June 20, 2014|publisher = Energy Manager Today}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.energysquad.com/blog/posts/products-and-brands/doe-launches-buildings-performance-database|title = DOE Launches Buildings Performance Database|last = Stern|first = Soriana|date = June 27, 2013|access-date = June 20, 2014|publisher = EnergySquad|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://archive.today/20140620165558/http://www.energysquad.com/blog/posts/products-and-brands/doe-launches-buildings-performance-database|archive-date = June 20, 2014}}</ref>

A factsheet put out by the [[White House Press Room]] on May 28, 2014, cited the Building Performance Database as an example of a success story, saying that it has exceeded a milestone of 750,000 building records, making it the world's largest public database of real buildings’ energy performance information.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/28/fact-sheet-harnessing-power-data-clean-secure-and-reliable-energy-future|title = FACT SHEET: Harnessing the Power of Data for a Clean, Secure, and Reliable Energy Future|date = May 28, 2014|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|access-date = June 20, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/white-house-touts-energy-data-as-an-important-national-resource|title = Is the White House's Open Data Strategy Working for Energy?|last = Lacey|first = Stephen|date = June 2, 2014|access-date = June 20, 2014|publisher = Green Tech Media}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/207394-feds-ramp-up-energy-climate-data-programs/|title=Feds ramp up energy, climate data programs|last = Cama|first = Timothy|date = May 28, 2014|access-date = June 20, 2014|work = [[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref>

==Data and API==