Legence Case Study - Powering BOMA’s Carbon Reduction Challenge

Overview

For over eight years, RE Tech has partnered with the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) to accelerate carbon reduction in the commercial real estate sector. As climate expectations mount across the built environment, BOMA needed a scalable strategy to engage global stakeholders, track environmental performance, and provide actionable tools for portfolio decarbonization.

RE Tech responded with long-term program support, blending technical rigor, communications expertise, and digital resource development to empower thousands of buildings to participate in BOMA’s Global Carbon Reduction Challenge.

Objectives

Advance Industry-wide Carbon Reduction
Support BOMA’s mission to lower emissions across the global built environment.

Equip Owners with Actionable Tools
Deliver easy-to-use resources that help owners benchmark and improve environmental performance.

Facilitate Scalable Data Insights
Drive data collection and benchmarking across diverse property portfolios worldwide.

Our Solution

Long-Term Program Support with Measurable Reach

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RE TECH Advisory Services

RE Tech served as BOMA’s strategic delivery partner, providing program design, operational execution, and technical enablement across these key areas:

‍Program Design & Administration

‍Developed and managed challenges like the BOMA Water and Waste Challenge and built a robust, user-focused program experience.

Resource Development

Created the BOMA Carbon Resource Center, featuring interactive tools, templates, and decarbonization strategies tailored to building types.

Data Aggregation & Analysis

Developed custom templates and data workflows to collect, validate, and analyze environmental data at scale. Providing building data optimization, assurance, collection, management, quality control and insights – and including utility data integration

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

Supported outreach, engagement campaigns, and user onboarding to grow global participation and maintain momentum.

Engagement

RE Tech built BOMA’s carbon challenge framework and knowledge hub, delivered global data and analytics support, enabled building teams with actionable tools, and evolved program resources as carbon standards advanced.

Program & Content Development
‍Crafted BOMA’s core carbon challenge framework and built out a centralized knowledge hub to house tools, strategies, and performance data.

Data Strategy & Analytics
‍Provided backend support for data collection, quality control, and carbon trend analysis across a global portfolio.

Stakeholder Enablement
‍Equipped building managers and sustainability teams with easy-to-use tools and training resources, simplifying their path to action.

Ongoing Strategic Support
‍Continuously evolved the program and its resources in response to changing carbon expectations, market needs, and participant feedback.

Results

ReTech enabled consistent carbon tracking across global portfolios, simplified reporting with standardized tools, and helped grow BOMA’s challenge to 2,000+ participating properties worldwide.

Preparedness
‍Enabled global real estate portfolios to self-assess and track decarbonization progress using consistent, validated methods.

Efficiency
‍Streamlined reporting through custom tools and standardized templates, reducing the barrier to meaningful carbon tracking.

Global Participation
‍More than 2,000 properties worldwide actively participate in BOMA’s Global Carbon Reduction Challenge.

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Global Impact Through Data: Powering BOMA’s Carbon Reduction Challenge

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