Survey of Advanced Residential Building Techniques and Technologies and Their Impacts on Energy Codes There is a distinct lack of knowledge on commonly used building practices that save energy in homes. However, energy codes need to advance by incorporating such practices, not by mandating new technologies and techniques. In the spring of 2009, BCAP conducted a builder survey to collect data on what is common practice and uncover opportunities to “catch up” the code to energy efficie...

Code Enforcement Through Third Parties Author: Kelly Guhanick, Building Codes Assistance Project An overview of third party code enforcement. Examples of successful third-party enforcement from Pennsylvania and Washington, DC are detailed.

Impact Evaluation: Nebraska's Residential Energy Code Training Program Prepared by the Britt/Makela Group, Inc. for the Institute of Market Transformation (IMT), this report presents the results of an impact evaluation of a building energy code training campaign on residential code compliance rates in the state of Nebraska. The authors conducted field inspections on a sample of 42 newly-constructed homes in Nebraska—normalizing, modeling, and comparing the results to a pre-training complia...

Commercial Sector Savings Analysis: Adopted 2010 WSEC Prepared by Ecotope, Inc. The purpose of this report is to present the energy and cost impacts of the Washington State Energy Code (WSEC) proposal for 2010 as approved by the State Building Code Council (SBCC). This analysis is confined to the non‐residential code changes in chapters 13, 14, and 15 of the WSEC. This report compares the first cost and energy savings of the 2009 edition of the Washington State Energy Code to the 2006...

2009 WSEC: Analysis of Code Changes Adopted by the SBCC This report compares the first cost and energy savings of the 2009 edition of the Washington State Energy Code to the 2006 edition of code for residential buildings.

True Cost of the 2009 IECC for New Homes in Arizona

Whole House Residential Ventilation (2012 IRC, 2012 IECC, 2012 IMC, ASHRAE Standard 62.2) The following presentation was developed for the Texas ECAP training session by Ken Baker of Kenergy.

Ducts Inside Conditioned Space Authors: Ken Baker (K energy), Sharon Patterson (Eco Edge), and the Utah State Energy ProgramWhy move ducts inside? Who needs to be involved? What design approaches can be used? This guide is designed to assist residential compliance to the 2009 International Residential Code, Chapter 11, and the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code, Chapter 4. It is also designed as a best practices guide for meeting code compliance and includes details on quality installat...

ECAP Application Materials The Energy Code Ambassador Program (ECAP) recognizes and encourages leadership in Energy Code knowledge and the mentoring of others in the proper application of Energy Codes to all building types. Energy Code Ambassadors are provided with a certificate accrediting their participation in ECAP. Ambassador Eligibility Recognition and Benefits for Participants Obligations of Participation Termination of Participation Use of the “Energy Code Ambassador” name an...

ECAP Booklet What is ECAP? The Energy Code Ambassadors Program (ECAP) was developed as a pilot energy code support program by the International Code Council (ICC) and the Building Codes Assistance Project (BCAP). ECAP recruits, trains, and positions code officials as Ambassadors in states in full coordination with state code and energy offices, and ICC chapters. The Ambassadors provide support and energy code expertise focused on peer-to-peer guidance for the code enforcement community. Further,...