About this Event
Maryland Climate Tech+ 2027
The Healthy Building Challenge
The Case for Human-Centered BEPS Retrofits
Healthcare Cost Avoidance: The Unmodeled Value Layer
March 14–15, 2027
Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor
Baltimore, Maryland
Healthier People. Stronger Buildings. Greater Returns.
What If Building Energy Performance Investments Could Deliver Greater Returns Than Just Energy Savings?
Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) are changing how building owners evaluate energy performance, capital improvements, and long-term property investments.
But what if those same investments could do more?
What if improving building performance could also improve human health, comfort, cognitive performance, productivity, operational resilience, tenant retention, and real estate returns?
And what if avoided healthcare costs represent an additional source of economic value that conventional building investment models routinely overlook?
Maryland Climate Tech+ 2027 brings these questions to the forefront.
What to Expect
Join building owners, real estate professionals, public health researchers, engineers, policymakers, technology innovators, and funding partners for two days of interdisciplinary discussions, building performance case studies, and opportunities for collaboration.
Participants will explore:
Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS): Understanding Maryland's performance requirements, building-specific compliance pathways, and capital investment considerations.
Human-Centered Building Performance: Exploring how indoor environmental quality, ventilation, thermal comfort, and healthier indoor environments can support occupant health, satisfaction, and productivity.
Healthcare Cost Avoidance: Examining the potential to quantify reduced environmental health risks and associated healthcare costs as part of the building investment business case.
Commercial Real Estate Returns: Exploring opportunities for stronger tenant retention, improved occupant satisfaction, reduced operational complaints, asset resilience, and greater investment returns.
Real-World Building Performance: Learning from building projects and emerging approaches that connect energy performance, occupant outcomes, and property value.
Measurement and Verification: Examining how real-time environmental monitoring, building intelligence, digital twins and performance standards can help establish and validate measurable results.
The Healthy Building Challenge
Beyond the conference, Maryland Climate Tech+ 2027 seeks to advance a funded, multi-building demonstration of Human-Centered BEPS Retrofits in Baltimore and Maryland.
The objective is to measure and validate the additional human, operational, and financial value that building performance investments can deliver beyond conventional energy savings calculations, including the potential for healthcare cost avoidance.
The challenge invites building owners, public health researchers, engineering specialists, and funding partners to help shape a replicable, evidence-based business case for healthier, higher-performing buildings.
Who Should Attend?
This conference is designed for:
- Commercial and multifamily building owners and asset managers
- Real estate brokers and agents, developers, investors, and financing professionals
- Public health and healthcare researchers
- Architects, engineers, and building performance specialists
- Policymakers, government agencies, and sustainability leaders
- Healthcare institutions and community development organizations
- Technology innovators and funding partners
Why Attend?
Maryland Climate Tech+ 2027 is more than a discussion about energy efficiency or regulatory compliance.
It is an opportunity to connect building investment decisions with measurable outcomes for the people who occupy those buildings.
Attendees will gain new perspectives, engage with professionals across disciplines, explore relevant building performance strategies, and contribute to conversations about the future of human-centered building investment.
The central question is no longer simply how much energy a building can save. It is how much additional value that investment can create.
Join Us in Baltimore
March 14–15, 2027
Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor
Baltimore, Maryland
Be part of the Healthy Building Challenge and help advance the next generation of human-centered building performance.
Healthier People. Stronger Buildings. Greater Returns.
Learn more: HealthyBuildingChallenge.com
Event venue & nearby stays
Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor, 300 Light Street, Baltimore, United States
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