Building Codes Advocates Meeting Presentations | The Building Codes Assistance Project

2016

Impacts of Model Building Energy Codes Analysis of the current model codes and their prospective impacts from 2010 through 2040.	Impacts of Model Building Energy Codes
DOE Residential and Commercial Compliance Studies Overview of the ongoing residential compliance project, and introduction of the new commercial compliance project.	DOE Commercial Building Compliance FOA Update on Single-Family Residential Field Studies
Energy Code Compliance Collaboratives Representatives from state code collaboratives share insights into how this program serves as an important component of improved compliance and timely adoption of updates.	Colorado Energy Code Compliance Collaborative (handout) Idaho Energy Code Collaborative Nebraska Codes Compliance Collaborative For more information, please visit BCAP’s Compliance Collaboratives portal.
Congressional Update
Transformation to Zero Solving the climate crisis through zero-net energy buildings, communities, and codes.	Transformation to Zero
Passive House as the Future Zero-net energy residential and commercial buildings are transforming the design and construction industries.	Passive House 101
2018 IECC Outreach Campaign The Energy Efficient Codes Coalition (EECC) – along with IMT, NASEO, ACEEE, and others – conducted a year-long education and advocacy initiative geared toward improving efficiency of the next version of the IECC.	Putting the IECC on a Glide Path of Steady Gains
Development of a Multifamily Energy Code Program solutions to the many complications that arise because multifamily is the only building type that has split regulation between the residential and commercial energy codes.	Realignment of the IECC (and program baselines) for Multifamily Buildings
What Does the Future Hold for RESNET? HERS ratings are becoming a new means of showing energy code compliance. How might this impact the development of the RESNET program and organization?	RESNET and the International Energy Conservation Code
Solar PV: Balancing EE and RE The U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative is a national effort to drive down the costs associated with solar electricity and support solar adoption. Speakers will address the ongoing efforts to achieve this goal and how this work complements the work to improve and advance energy codes.	Energy Codes and Solar: Moving Forward Together U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative: Overview and Mission Solar Training and Education for Professionals (STEP)
Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA) The CNCA aims to address what it will take for leading international cities to achieve deep emissions reductions and how they can work together to meet their respective goals more efficiently and effectively.
Emerging Technologies	Emerging Technologies for Building System Efficiency: Code Issues and Opportunities Energy Storage Safety and Building Energy Codes
Third Party Code Enforcement The pending depletion of the code enforcement workforce challenges municipalities to consider new reliable methofs for protecting the health, safety, and welfare of the public.	Third Party Code Enforcement City of Chicago Registered Energy Professional Program
Regional Roundup What were the successes and lessons from 2016? Case studies on legislative activity and training from around the country.

2015

Highlights from state and local adoption campaigns What were the big successes and lessons from 2015? Case studies from around the country.	Minnesota Energy Codes 2015 NC Building and Energy Code Plans for 2016
How is the ERI being implemented? What are the impacts of the introduction on PV trade-offs on ERI scores, the number of homes built with PV? How are code advocates and homebuilders responding? What will be proposed for adoption in the IECC or state/local codes to change how renewables are treated?	Four Key Elements of the ERI and Why They Matter The IECC, ERI and PV
Comparative Approach to Code Compliance Studies	Residential Energy Code Field Study National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings (NECB) 2011 CanQuest Sample Compliance Report NECB 2011 Compliance Checklist NECB 2011 Lighting Trade-Off
Clean Power Plan Ensuring efficiency and the role of building codes in state plans. What’s in EPA’s final Clean Power Plan and what can code advocates do to help states include codes in the state plans?	NASEO Perspective on Energy Efficiency, Codes and the CPP Building Energy Codes in the Clean Power Plan
2018 IECC code proposals What are the other code proposals being prepared?	DOE Draft Proposals for the 2018 IECC