The Fight for More Efficient Building Codes Comes to Atlantic City
By Allison Webster | Fri, September 13, 13
Live updates from the Comment Hearings 10/8/2013:
The big news is that RE-166, the mechanical equipment trade-off proposal constituting a massive energy code rollback, was disapproved 76-52, overturning committee action.
The rest of the changes have been more mild:
Gains:
- RE-63 approved, deleting footnote “h” wall bracing insulation exception, which stops its use as a loophole in cases where an exception isn’t warranted
- RE-83 approved as modified, mandating cavities wit