NBI Releases Code Language that Achieves Carbon Neutral Buildings

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New Buildings Institute recently released new code language that serves as a building decarbonization overlay to the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code. The Building Decarbonization Code is a groundbreaking tool aiming to deliver carbon neutral performance. It is designed to help states and cities working to mitigate carbon resulting from energy use in the built environment, which accounts for 39% of U.S. emissions. It also offers market insight into rules that will determine how new buildings are designed and constructed in the future in order to curb the worst impacts of climate change. The recent efficiency gains in the 2021 … Read more

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New Construction Guide Approved for LEED Energy Points

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Pathway for Advanced Energy Performance in Commercial Projects By Stacey Hobart As the bar rises for meeting base energy codes across the country, finding prescriptive approaches to reach and surpass that bar become more difficult. This scenario is playing out across the country with half the states requiring building standards that meet or exceed ASHRAE 90.1-2010. As a result, construction professionals are tasked with delivering on new practices, which may be unfamiliar, in a manner that fully meets design intentions. To help, the nonprofit New Buildings Institute has developed the Advanced Buildings New Construction Guide, a whole-building, prescriptive guide for … Read more

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