Maureen Guttman, President of the Building Codes Assistance Project, exhorts architects to take more responsibility for model energy code adoption and implementation.
How can architects build a new world of sustainable communities? By taking more responsibility for model energy code adoption and implementation. At the Hanley Wood Vision 2020 Sustainability Summit, held in conjunction with the 2014 Greenbuild in New Orleans, BCAP President Maureen Guttman encourag...
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Implementation
Implementation is a term used to describe all of the activities needed to prepare local building departments and the building industry to ensure compliance with the energy code. It includes outreach to stakeholder groups; on-site, classroom, and web-based training; establishing and utilizing enforcement infrastructure, tools, and systems; along with other educational and organizational efforts. For more resources on the topic of implementation, please click here.
Engaging More Architects To Meet The Compliance Goal
by Seul Rhee
While many states have worked hard to adopt the 2009 or 2012 International Energy Conservation Code, implementation and compliance are sometimes overlooked. But that is changing. National, regional, and local focus is shifting to address meeting the 90 percent compliance goal set by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Working with numerous state energy offices (22 states and counting) to investigate and assess a state’s existing energy code infrastructure, one comm...
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Understanding (a Few) of the Challenges of Implementing the Energy Code in Existing Buildings
By Dennis Hidalgo
Addressing building energy code compliance has proven to be a difficult task, one that becomes considerably more daunting when the subject is existing buildings. In the past year, BCAP has increased its focus on examining the challenges facing the implementation of the energy code in existing commercial buildings. The countless possibilities in existing building modifications underscore the impact that they can have on building energy performance. Because of this, an emphasis ...
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