Building Energy Codes

Regional Leadership and Brotherly Love at NEEP's 2014 Building Energy Codes Meeting

By Kevin Rose | Wed, October 15, 14

Last month, NEEP held its annual full day Regional Building Energy Codes Leadership Group meeting in Philadelphia at the Consortium for Building Energy Innovation (CBEI). NEEP’s Codes Leadership Group is a forum for information dissemination and exchange between building energy code stakeholders in our region, including state and municipal agencies, utilities, building officials, practitioners, and more that convenes for three webinars and one full day meeting each year.

NEEP Policy Highlights
Building Energy Codes
IECC
ASHRAE 90.1
Energy Efficiency
Code Compliance

Building Energy Code Coverage: ICC Annual Meeting and IGCC Public Hearings

By Darren Port | Wed, October 15, 14

Fort Lauderdale, Florida September 28 – October 4, 2014:  The International Code Council’s (ICC) Annual Meeting and Conference brought together over a thousand code officials from across the nation and around the world, and NEEP was there, representing the region. The conference and annual business meeting offered educational seminars, regional networking events, and strategic planning meetings.

NEEP Policy Highlights
International Green Construction Code
International Code Council
Building Energy Codes
Energy Efficiency

Energy Efficiency Policy Highlights - August

By Natalie Hildt Treat | Tue, August 5, 14

Welcome to Highlights! August 2014

NEEP Policy Highlights
public policy tracking
Winter Peak
NEEP Summit
Building Energy Codes
Air Source Heat Pumps
Cambridge
Building Energy Usage and Disclosure Ordinance

Daybreak on Zero Net Energy Buildings: NEEP Workshop Sparks Dialogue on the Future of Buildings

By Brian Buckley | Mon, August 4, 14

For quite some time, the zero net energy concept has struggled to reach beyond the domain of policy advocates and pilot projects; but the world is changing.

NEEP Policy Highlights
Building Energy Codes
Building Energy Use and Disclosure Ordinance
Building Resiliency
Demand Response
Energy Efficiency
Geothermal
NE-CHPS
Net Zero Energy
U.S Department of Education

Building Energy for Resiliency

By Caitriona Cooke | Thu, February 20, 14

Caitriona Cooke took some time out of her schedule to extol the benefits of better building design during an era riddled with more extreme weather patterns and to inform us of a great conference, Building Energy 2014, happening right around the corner in Boston. 73271468

Guest Contributors
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best practices
Building Energy Codes
conference
Energy Efficiency
High Performance Buildings
NESEA
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
rebuilding
resilience
resiliency
sea level rise
The New York Times

Ma. StretchCode or: How I Learned to Stop Updating and Love the Timebomb

By Kevin Rose | Tue, February 4, 14

Unless Massachusetts communities push to update the state’s Stretch Code before July 1, 2014, the 20% boost in building energy efficiency it provides will evaporate, creating market confusion and violate the very concept behind its inception.

Buildings
Building Energy Codes
DOER
Green Communities Act
IECC
MA stretch code
U.S. Department of Energy

Innovation and Regulation: A Winning Partnership Formula

By Jim OReilly | Tue, January 14, 14

It’s always interesting to witness a convergence of events that serve to highlight and illustrate an issue raised in the course of public debate. Such a convergence has occurred in recent weeks, in this case involving energy efficiency standards set by the states and the federal government, which date to the days when Ronald Reagan was governor of California and public consciousness began turning to the idea that energy was a vital commodity that needed to be regulated via public policy. On December 31, with most of us ensconced in a holiday glow against the biting cold, the Associated Pres
Best Practices
appliance efficiency standards
Boston Globe
Building Energy Codes
Energy Efficiency
high efficiency lighting
LED
U.S. Energy Information Administration
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