Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Iowa Energy Center’s Pilot Benchmarking project collected building and energy consumption data from over 1200 public buildings across Iowa. I worked from the beginning to the end of this project as a Sector Leader, working with public organization contacts (data owners), utility companies (historic data collectors), as well as the Weidt Group, the company that developed and hosts the B3 Benchmarking system.