The Federal Energy Management Program offers resources to help federal agencies plan and implement energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality (IEQ) assessments and upgrades.

Also see FEMP's collections of case studies, publications, and tools.

• Health Effects of Energy Efficiency: What Research Findings Can We Agree On? Presented at the 2020 ACEEE Conference on Health, Environment, and Energy
• Healthy Buildings Initiative: Presented at Greenbuild 2020 
• Balancing Data Collection Burden and Comprehensive IEQ Evaluation: Presented at the AEE 2020 World Expo 
• Capturing Human Benefits of Improving Indoor Environments: Presentation at the 2020 Energy Exchange
• H-BEST Data Collection Guide: Provides instructions on how to collect indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and occupant data and enter it into the accompanying tool
• FEMP IEQ Assessments for Schools: Presented at the Green Schools IAQ Workshop in 2023
• Advancing Human Outcome Analytics to Build Confidence in IEQ Investment: Presented at the 2021 ASHRAE Building Performance and Analytics Conference
• Framework to Integrate Energy Efficiency and Occupant Health/Wellness: Presented at EDRA50 in 2019
• Enhanced Ventilation for Cleaner Air in Buildings: Presented at a National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine panel in 2023

• Integrating Health and Energy Efficiency in Healthcare Facilities: Document outlines research and resources on the intersection of IEQ and energy efficiency at U.S. healthcare facilities, including federally owned buildings.
• Integrating Health and Energy Efficiency in Multi-Family Buildings: Document explores some of the most impactful resources to help property owners and managers understand more about multi-family residential buildings that are both healthy and energy efficient.
• Overview of Industry Research on LED Lighting Technology and Application to the Federal Sector: Document explores existing research and claims about LEDs and their application in the federal sector.
• Energy and Health Nexus: Document describes the opportunity space for healthy buildings research.
• Existing Healthy Buildings Overview: Fact sheet explores some of the most impactful resources to help building owners and operators understand more about buildings that are both healthy and energy-efficient.
• Healthy Buildings Initiative: General Services Administration Pilot Study: Fact sheet describes Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL) General Services Administration (GSA) pilot of PNNL's framework for evaluating indoor environmental quality metrics and quantifying the potential financial costs and gains related to improving occupant productivity in federal buildings.
• Healthy Buildings Initiative: Fort Worth Pilot Study: Fact sheet describes a case study of a federal office building in Fort Worth, Texas, that was used as a test site for indoor environmental quality data collection and analysis.
• A Statistical Evaluation of Combining Human Productivity Metrics in the Indoor Environment: Published in the American Society of Mechanical Engineering Journal.
• Quantifying Occupant Health and Productivity for Deep Retrofits: Beyond Traditional IEQ Studies: ACEEE 2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficient Buildings conference proceedings.
• LED Design and Acquisition for BIE Schools Fact Sheet: This fact sheet contains key definitions and takeaways for upgrading to LED lighting, from design to acquisition to disposal.

Healthy Buildings Energy Support Tool (H-BEST): H-BEST monetizes productivity and absenteeism gains for comparison and solution prioritization. Monetized results may not apply directly to actual profit for all scenarios.

• Indoor Environmental Quality, Building Health, And Comfort: This session provides an overview and discusses practical applications of research relating the indoor environment to health.
• Indoor Environmental Quality Analysis and Solutions Interactive Training: This interactive training educates users about elements and properties of healthy office buildings through the selection of potential improvement measures for three hypothetical office building scenarios.
• FEMP Healthy Building Tool Overview: This introductory training provides an overview of the Federal Energy Management Program's (FEMP) Healthy Buildings Initiative (HBI). The training investigates the intersection of energy efficiency and occupant productivity and satisfaction.
• LED Design and Acquisition for BIE Schools: This training provides an overview of the main steps and considerations for upgrading to LED lighting—from design to acquisition to disposal—for Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools.

• Sustainable Facilities Tool: Health: Webpage offers resources related to health and IEQ.
• ASHRAE Indoor Environmental Quality Resources: Webpage provides a collection of ASHRAE's resources on indoor air quality, IEQ and environmental health.
• WELL Resources: Website offers a multitude of healthy building resources, including checklists, courses, reports, and scorecards.