Beaverton Building Performance Standard

Nike’s World Headquarters sits on 286 acres at the edge of Beaverton, with more than 75 buildings on the campus and recent additions like the LeBron James Innovation Center and the million-square-foot Serena Williams Building. It’s the single most distinctive commercial property in the Pacific Northwest, and it’s also a useful mental reference point for the conversation most Beaverton building owners need to have about the Oregon Building Performance Standard.

Because here’s the thing: Beaverton isn’t just Nike. The city has a dense mid-size commercial ecosystem — 1.77 million square feet of office, 810,000 square feet of retail, 1.09 million square feet of industrial — with tech tenants, medical facilities, shopping centers, and a mixed-use corridor (Tanasbourne / AmberGlen) that shares geography with Hillsboro. Oregon BPS applies to covered buildings across every one of those categories.

Oregon BPS in Beaverton: The Plain-English Version

Under ORS 330-300, the Oregon Department of Energy requires commercial buildings 35,000 square feet and larger to benchmark annual energy use, complete an ASHRAE Level 2 energy audit, run a life-cycle cost assessment on identified energy conservation measures, and file a Form Q compliance report by 2028 (Tier 1) or 2030 (Tier 2). Benchmarking was due in January 2025. The audit and Form Q work follows.

Beaverton Buildings at a Glance

Beaverton Detail	Figure
City population (2026)	~98,700
County	Washington
Electric utility	Portland General Electric (PGE)
Office inventory	~1.77M sq ft
Retail inventory	~810,000 sq ft
Industrial inventory	~1.09M sq ft
Most commercial density (neighborhood)	Vose-Bel Air (~33 listings)
Anchor employer	Nike World Headquarters (286-acre campus, 75+ buildings)
City climate target	Carbon neutral city operations by 2030; zero community GHG by 2050

Who Must Comply in Beaverton

• Nike’s World Headquarters buildings — Multiple individually captured by size; sophisticated in-house facilities and sustainability teams typically drive the early work
• Tanasbourne / AmberGlen office buildings — The 1.25 million sq ft of office space in the Tanasbourne corridor contains many individually captured buildings
• Maxim Integrated Products — 226,000 sq ft semiconductor fab and support buildings
• IBM Linux Technology Center — Beaverton office presence
• Legacy Tektronix campus buildings — Many now leased or sold in parts; individual buildings still captured
• Downtown Beaverton and Old Town commercial buildings — 34+ commercial listings in the downtown core
• Larger retail anchors — Target, Best Buy, Nordstrom Rack, Greenway Corridor shopping centers
• Medical office buildings and private clinics — Especially those affiliated with Providence and Kaiser
• Hotels serving Nike and Silicon Forest business travelers
• Larger multifamily buildings — Especially in the mixed-use corridors

How the Audit Process Runs

An ASHRAE Level 2 energy audit under Oregon BPS is a structured engineering exercise governed by ASHRAE Standard 100 with Oregon amendments. It’s not a walkthrough, not a utility bill review, and not a voluntary sustainability exercise — it’s a specific compliance deliverable with a defined scope.

A typical Beaverton audit runs four to six weeks from kickoff to delivered report. We pull benchmarking and utility data, walk the building with your facilities team for one to two days, measure key HVAC and envelope performance, run a life-cycle cost assessment on every candidate energy conservation measure, and deliver a Form Q compliance package ready for submission to ODOE. For large Nike-scale campus projects, the timeline extends and we typically work building by building rather than campus-wide.

Flat Fees, No Surprises

Our pricing is locked at scoping. Not hourly. Not contingent. Not a percentage of claimed savings.

• 35,000–50,000 sq ft: $7,500
• 50,000–75,000 sq ft: $10,000
• 75,000–100,000 sq ft: $13,500
• 100,000–150,000 sq ft: $17,500
• 150,000+ sq ft: custom quote

Energy Trust and PGE Incentive Stacking

Energy Trust of Oregon offers up to $0.85 per square foot in incentives for BPS compliance work. For a 100,000 square foot Beaverton office building, that’s $85,000 in available Energy Trust money. Our flat fee for that size bracket is $17,500 — meaning in many cases Energy Trust alone will cover the audit and leave tens of thousands of dollars for actual equipment upgrades. Since Beaverton is served by PGE, Energy Trust flows directly, and PGE’s own commercial efficiency rebate programs stack on top for qualifying equipment categories.

Beaverton’s Climate Action Plan 2035 Update targets carbon neutrality in city operations by 2030 and zero community greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. That alignment between state BPS requirements and local climate policy means Beaverton building owners should expect continued pressure on energy performance beyond the first compliance cycle — which reinforces the case for doing the audit work thoroughly the first time rather than treating it as a check-the-box exercise.

Building Types We Serve in Beaverton

Corporate office campuses, tech R&D buildings, medical office buildings and private clinics, retail anchors and shopping center pads, hotels and hospitality properties, warehouse and distribution buildings, larger multifamily buildings, and private educational and institutional facilities — all of these are common Beaverton BPS projects for us.

Why 2026 Is the Right Start Year

A well-run BPS compliance process takes 9 to 18 months from first scoping call to a filed Form Q. Starting in 2026 gives Beaverton building owners a normal working pace, time to implement the energy conservation measures the audit recommends (and capture their ROI), and access to Energy Trust of Oregon’s full incentive pool before the late-cycle rush. Starting in 2027 compresses the schedule. Starting in 2028 means paying for expedited work and potentially missing the deadline.

Email Mike at vanvicklebros@gmail.com with your Beaverton building address, square footage, and use category for a flat quote and an Energy Trust incentive read the same week. See also our guide to Energy Trust of Oregon BPS incentives or our breakdown of Oregon BPS for office buildings.