Measuring State EnergyCode Compliance
Step-by-Step Companion Guide
OBTAIN EVALUATION CHECKLISTS
A reliable measurement of energy code compliancecalls for onsite evaluations of a valid sample of building projects—both new construction andrenovations. To “check on” compliance, the rststep to is to have a proper checklist. BECP offersevaluation checklists for both residential andcommercial buildings, complete with instructionsto help evaluators. The checklists offer weightedscoring in order to focus on the most importantcode requirements and help states produceaccurate metrics.
BECP Tool:
Download inspectionchecklists andcorrespondinginstructions at:
MANY U.S. STATES,
territories, and jurisdictions are creatingplans to measure and improve compliance with their energycodes. To support this effort, in March 2010, the U.S. Departmentof Energy’s Building Energy Codes Program (BECP) released
Measuring State Energy Code Compliance,
a report that collectsBECP’s recommended methodologies, which were developed withkey input from stakeholders. The full report is available at
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To supplement the report, this user-friendly action plan summarizes the mainprocedures, shows further options, and points to several ready-made resourcesand web-based tools BECP is releasing to support the process.
GENERATE SAMPLES
With checklists in hand, the next step is todetermine which buildings to inspect. BECPrecommends the evaluation of a statisticallysignicant number of buildings in each of thefollowing four building populations:
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Residential new construction
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Commercial new construction
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Residential renovations
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Commercial renovations.
Within each population, roughly 44 buildingprojects* should be selected randomly, and in sucha manner as to provide a representative samplewith respect to building type and size, location bycounty and climate zone, and other factors.Leave the math tous—BECP offers
StateSample Generator,
anautomated solution for your state. You can ndyour state’s customSample Generator at:
BECP Tool:
*This number may vary by state/building population.
BECP Tool:
CONDUCT ONSITE EVALUATIONS
So you know which data to collect, and you knowwhere to collect them. But who and how? Formalprocedures should optimally be conducted by third-party evaluators. For some evaluators, inspectingnew construction and renovation projects accordingto the energy codes is second nature, but othersmay be new to the process. Of course, there arenuances involved—sometimes things are less thansimple in the eld. At BECP’s
www.energycodes.gov
, you’ll nd the materials to help answer your compliance-related questions. In particular, you’llnd Education and Training, Solutions and Help,and Software Tools.BECP is beginning tolaunch
Building Energy Codes University
(BECU),your one-stop resourcefor energy codes educa-tion and training. Newmaterials include a seriesof training presentationsfor compliance eval-uators, complete withreal-world video clips:
ANALYZE YOUR STATE’S DATA
Now that you’ve gathered raw compliancedata, the question becomes: how should thisinformation be analyzed and used? At this stage,data for individual buildings and populations cometogether to generate an overall state compliancemetric. For help, states may send BECP their paper checklists, or use BECP’s
Checklist Storeand Score Tool
. While overall compliance canbe determined manually for individual buildingsand groups of renovations, this tool will provideautomated building scores and state-wideconsolidation of data. Individual building scoreswill remain condential, but this effort will shedvaluable light on nationwide compliance.Don’t waste your staff’svaluable time sortingthrough paper checkliststo determine compliance.Instead, enter raw datainto BECP’s
Checklist Store and Score Tool
) to generate buildingand state-wide metrics.
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