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Building Performance Standards and Their Impact to Projects in Design

Kim Gonzalez — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 18:41:53 +0000

Emerging as a key tool for cities and states to meet their climate goals, building performance standards are shaking up the building industry. Learn about how building performance standards work to lower building carbon emissions and how they are impacting building design and the energy modeling process, moving teams beyond code-based thinking.

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Gas Bans and Zero-Emission Appliance Standards: Emerging Policy Trends

Kim Gonzalez — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 15:21:13 +0000

A growing number of jurisdictions are targeting the electrification of new construction by banning fossil fuel systems or adding electrification requirements to codes. California and New York are also moving toward zero-emission appliance standards that would phase fossil fuel equipment out of existing buildings when systems are replaced. This presentation will unpack these leading-edge building decarbonization policies.

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Industrializing Construction to Increase the Speed and Scale of Building Decarbonization

Kim Gonzalez — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:03:11 +0000

Decarbonizing the U.S. building sector requires a rapid and sustained increase in the rates of energy efficient and low-carbon building retrofits and new construction. Given the speed and scale of action needed to decarbonize the built environment, new approaches are required to overcome traditional market and technical barriers. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Building Construction (ABC) Initiative aims to transform building construction and renovation practices in the U.S. using industrialized construction approaches to improve the speed, scale, and affordability of high-performance building retrofits and new construction. This presentation provides an overview of the ABC Initiative,

The speaker, Evan Sattler-Malloy, a research scientist at Berkeley Lab’s Building Technologies and Urban Systems Division, discusses industrializing instruction and its role in increasing the speed and scale of building decarbonization. He highlights key challenges faced by the building and construction industry in the 21st century, such as the decline in labor productivity, the doubling of the global building stock by 2060, and the inadequacy of annual retrofits in the US. He introduces the Department of Energy’s Advanced Building Construction (ABC) initiative including its key goals and accomplishments to date in the areas of building retrofit RD&D, industry-facing performance and cost guidance, technology commercialization and scaling, and its efforts to develop and deploy advanced building technologies in both renovation and construction markets. He also previews forthcoming Market guidance for residential buildings, which aims to promote the broader adoption of advanced building technologies.

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Building Emissions Reduction And Disclosure

tempuser — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:52:10 +0000

Boston’s Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO) sets requirements for large buildings to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The goal is to reduce emissions gradually to net zero by 2050.

Buildings account for nearly 70% of greenhouse gas emissions in Boston. The 2021 amendment to BERDO gives the City authority to set emissions standards for large existing buildings. The emissions standards will decrease over time, with all buildings achieving net zero emissions by 2050. To learn more, read the full text of the legislation.

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