The ICP Project Development Specification (PDS) brings the many complex details of an energy efficiency project into focus, providing a clear direction to the entire team with regards to requirements, tools, expectations, and quality management.   Its unified approach to project development ensures that projects compliant with the ICP Protocols can be trusted to be consistent in their approach, methodology, and financial returns. 

Download Specification

The Project Development Specification provides a clear roadmap for project developers to correctly implement each requirement specified in the ICP protocols based on current best practices and available industry resources. It represents the collective project development knowledge of a large team of industry experts and has been designed to allow various stakeholders to understand the details associated with the development, verification, and analysis of ICP IREE projects.  ICP seeks to continually improve this tool, so feel free to contact us with any questions, ideas, or comments.

The Project Development Specification represents a thorough set of best practices designed to work on the most comprehensive projects and with the full range of ICP Protocols. Project Developers and Quality Assurance Assessors should coordinate on requirements and how to apply the Project Development Specification at an appropriate level of rigor relative the requirements of the chosen protocol which should be treated as the source of truth.

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Project Developers

Project developers are responsible for developing a project based on sound engineering principles and best practices, utilizing industry standard approaches for the development of each component of the project. The ICP Project Development Specification describes the general best practices associated with each of these elements and the resources with which each team member should be familiar.  This is necessary so that the methods and results adhere to current industry standards and protocols and follow guidelines that are well established in the industry. 

ICP Quality Assurance Assessors

Technical reviews conducted by ICP Quality Assurance  (QA) Assessors verify project documentation to ensure that IREE projects comply with the requirements of the ICP Protocols and the ICP Project Development Specification is a comprehensive resource to ensure that every requirement can be fully understood and evaluated.  The independent review provided by ICP Quality Assurance Assessors can be conducted by engineering firms, through a program,  or by investors.