In the second phase of the Compliance Planning Assistance project, BCAP worked with states to develop long-term Strategic Compliance Plans for advancing energy code implementation to meet the goal of 90 percent compliance by 2017. The participating states were selected from the pool of states that participated in the first phase of the project and completed a Gap Analysis Report. States were selected based on BCAP recommendations and input from stakeholders (including DOE, NASEO, and regio...

Recognizing that most states lack the expertise to develop and implement successful energy code policies and programs that will achieve 90 percent compliance by 2017, DOE/NETL funded BCAP to implement an 18-month project to provide Compliance Planning Assistance to a limited number of states. In the first phase of the project, the Gap Analysis, the BCAP team gathered extensive information on nearly twenty states and performed a comprehensive evaluation of each state’s energy codes program ...