This study examines how streamlining can improve compliance with building energy codes. Streamlining is the practice of improving building regulatory processes to remove overlap and duplication and create more efficient administrative procedures. The study argues that streamlining not only makes building departments more efficient and effective at enforcing construction code requirements, but also improves customer … Continued
Since last year, the state of Georgia has had a requirement for mandatory building-envelope and duct-tightness testing, by certified individuals, on all new residential construction. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this requirement has improved compliance rates. Why? Read the case study to find out more.
Towns and cities including Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., regularly hire third parties to conduct construction plan reviews, reducing the expense to the local building department while increasing the level of quality assurance–and helping to ensure that all plans comply with energy and other codes.
In Wisconsin, licensed design professionals have long been responsible for ensuring that projects are built in compliance with applicable building codes. Learn how this unusual model works, and why it has the potential to boost energy code compliance rates.