Commercial Buildings Initiative
Working Group: Codes and Standards
Group Co-Chairs
- David Karmol, International Code Council (ICC)
- Douglas E. Read, Program Director of Government Affairs, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
WORKING DRAFTS:
Please suggest language that addresses any concerns or issues you may have directly into the document as tracked changes. Send documents to Garth Otto (gotto@naseo.org) with the subject line indicating the working group you are submitting to, i.e. “CBC Input on XXXX Working Group.”
Documents
The first call of the Codes and Standards working group took place on April 5, 2010.
- 4/5/2010 Meeting Minutes.
- 5/27/2010 Meeting Minutes.
- 7/27/2010 Meeting Minutes.
- 8/10/2010 Meeting Minutes.
- Download the draft of the Future of Energy Codes paper
- CBC Codes & Standards Draft - Verison 2 - 8/24/2010
Draft Scope
The Codes and Standards Working Group focuses on how adoption of stretch or advanced codes and standards by local and state government can push the adoption of high-performance commercial building technologies, systems, and practices. In addition, the group will help to identify any systemic or technical barriers within current model codes and standards that discourage increased energy efficiency, block use of alternative energy or energy management systems, or prevent the use of novel and unique approaches to achieving zero energy buildings. Finally, the group will examine the political and systemic obstacles that prevent state and local governments from adopting codes and standards that will force construction of zero-, or near zero-, energy buildings, and how those obstacles can be overcome.
- Are energy codes going to continue to offer prescriptive options? Or is the construction and code enforcement community prepared to accept onlywhole-building energy performance codes/standards?
- What infrastructure and capacity is needed to make this shift nationally (such as California has done??)?
- What are implications for code enforcement and compliance with such a shift? – EM&V and institutional challenges
- Will such a shift be flexible enough to allow component renovations and replacements in existing buildings in cases when it’s not a whole-building retrofit?
- Be conscious of not discouraging renovations, replacements, or underinvestment
- How can we demonstrate the feasibility and cost-effective of component replacements?
- How do we insure that energy codes and standards allow for innovation without decreasing quality assurance and building safety?
- Can modeling be developed tobenchmark improvements against zero total annual net energy use?
- What are we measuring? As-designed or actual performance?
- How are we enforcing? As-designed or actual performance?
- Can states and local governments be incentivized to align code policy with benchmarking policy and utility pricing policies. Zoom out and explore other ways that code policy could be aligned with other policy avenues.
- Incentives to push towards adoption of more efficient and stretch codes
Current Members
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| Company Name | First Name | Last Name | Job Title |
| Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc. | Cheryl | English | Vice President, Technical Services & Industry Relations |
| Acuity Lighting Group, Inc. | Richard | Heinisch | Manager, Technical Services |
| AirCuity, Inc. | Dan | Diehl | |
| AirCuity, Inc. | Gordon | Sharp | |
| Airxchange, Inc. | Drake | Erbe | Vice President, Business Development |
| Alliance to Save Energy | Aleisha | Khan | Executive Director for Building Codes Assistance Project |
| Alliance to Save Energy | Jeffrey | Harris | Vice President, Programs |
| American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy | Harvey | Sachs | |
| American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy | Harry | Misuriello | |
| Architectural Energy Corporation | John | Arent | Staff Engineer |
| Architecture 2030 | Edward | Mazria | CEO |
| Architecture 2030 | Vincent | Martinez | |
| ASHRAE | Doug | Read | Director of Government Affairs |
| Autodesk | Erin | Hoffer | |
| Autodesk | Elaine | Kan | Sustainability Initiative |
| Bayer | Jerry | Phelan | |
| BOMA International | Karen | Penafiel | Vice President, Advocacy |
| Boston Redevelopment Authority | John | Dalzell | Senior Architect |
| Building Energy Performance News | Anthony | Buonicore | CEO |
| Building Owners and Managers Association | Ron | Burton | VP - Codes, Standards & Regulatory Affairs |
| Business EcoSystems | George | Gosieski | Partner |
| California Energy Commission, PIER | Martha | Brook | Public Interest Energy Research Buildings Program |
| CertainTeed Corporation | Randall | Straight | |
| CertainTeed Insulation | Rob | Brockman | Marketing Manager - Residential/Commercial |
| Colorado Governor's Energy Office | Conor | Merrigan | Commercial Buildings Program Manager |
| Consulting-Specifying Engineer | Michael | Ivanovich | Chief Editor |
| Daikin AC (Americas), Inc. | Dominic | Kolandayan | |
| Daikin AC (Americas), Inc. | Lee | Smith | |
| Dryvit | Tony | Stall | Vice President, Marketing and Sustainability |
| Ductmate Industries, Inc. | Ed | Rafalski | |
| Earth Advantage Institute | Brian | Lynch | Commercial Program Manager |
| EE Capital Management | Brian | Hunt | Partner |
| Edison Electric Institute | Steve | Rosenstock | Manager, Energy Solutions |
| EEMAX, Inc. | Kevin | Ruppelt | |
| EEMAX, Inc. | Aaron | Siegel | VP, Sales |
| EIFS Industry Members Association | David | Johnston | Executive Director/CEO |
| Emerge Alliance | Brian | Patterson | Chairman |
| emersion DESIGN | Shawn | Hesse | Architect |
| EMS | Rami | Ghanem | |
| Garner Energy Solutions | Aaron | Needham | President/CEO |
| Glass Association of North America | Urmilla | Sowell | Technical Director |
| Glass Association of North America | William | Yanek | Executive Vice President |
| Green Building Initiative | Mark | Rossolo | Public Relations |
| Green Building Initiative | Erin | Shaffer | |
| Green Roundtable / NEXUS | Barbara | Batshalom | Executive Director |
| Green Roundtable / NEXUS | Ravi | Srinivasan | Director of Technology & Innovation |
| Grundfos Pumps Corporation | Greg | Towsley | |
| herron + partners | David | Herron | Principal |
| IAPMO | Dain | Hansen | |
| ICF International | William | Prindle | Vice President |
| ICF International | Deborah | Miller | Vice President |
| ICF International | Andrew | Schulte | Senior Associate |
| Iec | Angela | Helman | Principal |
| Institute for Market Transformation | Andrew | Burr | |
| Institute for Market Transformation | Cliff | Majersik | Program Director |
| International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) | John | Martin | Public Policy |
| International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials | Peter | DeMarco | Director of Special Programs |
| International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials | Dain | Hansen | |
| International Code Council | David | Karmol | VIce President, Federal & External Relations |
| Johnson Controls | John | Ruiz | Program Director, Sustainable Energy Technology |
| Magnaray International Division, World Institute of Lighting and Development Corporation | Larry | Leetzow | President |
| Maryland Energy Administration | Jesse | Fulton | Energy Efficiency Program Manager |
| Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources | John | Ballam | Engineering Manager, Energy Efficiency Division, DOER |
| Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources | Ian | Finlayson | Manager, Buildings and Climate Programs, Energy Efficiency Division, DOER |
| MCQUAY INTERNATIONAL | Julian | de Bullet | DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRY RELATIONS |
| Metropolitan Architects and Planners | Sanjay | Arora | |
| National Association of Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors | Dwight | Casey | |
| National Association of State Energy Officials | Jim | Arwood | Regional Coordinator |
| National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP) | Elizabeth | Osborne | Policy Analyst |
| National Fenestration Rating Council | Tom | Herron | Communications & Marketing Manager |
| National Fenestration Rating Council | Ray | McGowan | Technical Services Manager |
| National Institute of Building Sciences | Ryan | Colker | Director of the Consultative Council/Presidential Advisor |
| National Institute of Building Sciences | Henry | Green | President |
| National Institute of Building Sciences | Earle | Kennett | |
| National Insulaton Association | Ronald | King | Nia Past President - Fesi Liaison |
| National Lighting Bureau | John | Bachner | Executive Director |
| National Lighting Bureau | Jim | Yorgey | Secretary/Treasurer |
| New Buildings Institute | David | Hewitt | Executive Director |
| New Buildings Institute | Jim | Edelson | Senior Consultant |
| North Atlantic Energy Advisors | Douglas | Baston | President |
| North Carolina Energy Partners | Andrew | Courts Jr. | Managing Principal |
| Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships/td> | Carolyn | Sarno | Senior Program Manager |
| Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance | Jack | Davis | Market Manager, Office Real Estate |
| Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance | John | Jennings | |
| Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) | Skip | Schick | |
| Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) | David | Cohan | |
| Optimum Energy | Heather | Van Schoiack | PR & Influencer Marketing Manager |
| Optimum Energy LLC | Michele | Cook | Government Market Manager |
| Pacific Gas and Electric Company | Robert | Marcial | |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | David | Conover | Senior Program Manager |
| Penn State Indoor Environment Center | William | Bahnfleth | Professor and Director |
| PetersenDean Roofing and Solar | Carrie | Norton | Sr. Director of Business Development |
| Philips Electronics North America | Gert | Bruning | Sr. Director Federal R&D Programs |
| Philips Lighting | Keith | Cook | VP - Technology Policy & Standards |
| PIMA | Jared | Blum | President |
| PIMA | Jeff | Mang | |
| Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors-National Association | Kevin | Schwalb | Director of Government Relations |
| Polk Mechanical Co. | Michael | Humphries | Project Development |
| Primera Engineers | Michael | DeSantiago | President |
| Primera Engineers | Diane | Laoang | Associate Vice President |
| REJUVINAIR Inc. | Richard | Namovich | President |
| Research Frontiers Inc. | Gregory | Sottile | Director of Market Development |
| Roger Williams University | Robert | Potter | Associate Provost and Dean of Engineering |
| Sage Electrochromics. Inc. | Lou | Podbelski | VP Marketing |
| Sage Electrochromics. Inc. | Helen | Sanders | Vice President |
| Sage Electrochromics. Inc. | Neil | Sbar | VP Technology |
| Sain Engineering Associates, Inc. | Steve | Sain | President |
| Sain Engineering Associates | James | Woods | Vice President |
| Sain Engineering Associates | Nick | Stecky | Resource Efficiency Manager |
| Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology (SVIT) | Falguni | Patel | Lecturer |
| Solar Buildings Research Network | Meli | Stylianou | |
| Southern California Edison | Randall | Higa | Senior Engineer |
| Southface Energy Institute | Mike | Barcik | Director of Technical Services |
| Southface Energy Institute | Brandon | Jones | Manager, Commercial Green Building Services |
| Southland Industries | Shane | Stanfield | Project Engineer |
| Spray Polyurethane Foam Alliance | Richard | Duncan | Technical Director |
| Spray Polyurethane Foam Alliance (SPFA) | Kurt | Riesenberg | Executive Director |
| Steven Winter Associates | Richard | Tesoriero | |
| Sustainable Buildings Industry Council | Bud | DeFlaviis | |
| TC9, Inc. | Toby | Considine | President |
| Terrapin Bright Green | Bill | Browning | Founding Partner |
| Terrapin Bright Green | Chris | Gavin | Partner |
| The Performance Building Institute | Mark | Sands | President |
| Time Equities, Inc. | Alice | Cook | |
| TRACO | Sneh | Kumar | |
| U.S. EPA | Gerard | Bulanowski | Green Building Coordinator |
| United Technologies | Craig | Walker | Director, UTC Power Programs |
| United Technologies Research Center | William | Sisson | Director, Sustainability, WBCSD Buildings Program |
| Urban Land Institute | Uwe | Brandes | VP, Initiatives |
| Urban Land Institute | Matt | Johnston | Research Manager, Initiatives |
| Virgin Islands Energy Office | Miguel | Quinones | Program Specialist |
| WattStopper | Jeff | Park | |
| WattStopper | Dorene | Maniccia | Director, Policy and Industry Affairs |
| Weidt Group | Chris | Baker | |
| Wellford Energy Advisors | Sharon | Heaton | Managing Director |
| Winstead PC | William | Weinberg | Shareholder |
| Unaffiliated | Sonal | Kemkar | Technical Project Manager, Engineer |