Presented at the AESP 26th National Conference on February 3, 2016 Ari Michelson, Brian McCowan, Frances Chase, ERS Building energy codes in the U.S. have come a long way in the past three decades, increasing in complexity along the way. This is especially true for the commercial building sector, where codes have rapidly transitioned from […]
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It is Time to Learn How Buildings Actually Perform
Brian McCowan for Zondits, May 15, 2015. Image credit: gr8effect The move toward outcome-based building performance assessment and code compliance is a major step forward for energy efficiency efforts. The outcome-based methodology is so logical, in fact, that most people outside this industry already assume that the energy performance of commercial buildings, and especially those […]