Eric Richman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash.
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Codes and Standards April 1, 2010
Shedding light on energy codes
As energy codes become more stringent, it becomes more of a challenge for architects and designers to meet the requirements of the current system of prescriptive energy codes. Because of these challenges, advocates of performance-based energy code systems point to them as possible solutions to the problem of meeting the various 30%, 50%, and near-zero-energy building goals supported by propose...
By Eric Richman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash.