![]() The Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) and the International Code Council (ICC) have announced the winners of the 2016 Standard Bearers awards. BCAP identified New Hampshire as one its Places to Watch for two major reasons: the state’s timely adoption of the most recent model energy code at that time, the 2009 IECC and their Energy Code Compliance Roadmap, designed as a guide towards 90% compliance with the existing code by 2017.Ģ016 Standard Bearers Award Winners Announced We will be looking for other places to watch in the future as cities lead the way with sustainability plans and energy saving goals. Now, we are going back to these nine jurisdictions to track their progress and see what other innovations they’ve added six years later. In 2010, BCAP created a list of Places to Watch that were making strides in enacting energy efficient building codes. ![]() Read more about this topic on CodeWatcher Online voting begins for code officials on November 8th and lasts through November 21st. If passed by voters, these measures will become part of the 2018 IECC. RESNET 301 has been voted into the IECC as the ERI compliance path. After much debate over the past few months, on-site power generation is being allowed in the ERI compliance path with the caveat that the 2015 IECC prescriptive requirements are used as the backstop. They chose to keep the mechanical equipment tradeoff out of the code, overturning the committee's recommendation. Your bimonthly news vehicle for all things energy codes.īrought to you by the Building Codes Assistance Project.Īt the Kansas City ICC public comment hearings, in-person voting representatives made several key decisions in moving forward with code development.
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