A public review of the drafts of both the 2024 Commercial and Residential International Energy Conservation Conservation Code® (IECC) is well underway.
The public comment period for the draft 2024 Commercial IECC closed on October 21. NBI provided public comment on 19 proposals and drafted general and electrification-focused letters that included signatures from 59 governments and organizations. The Commercial Consensus Committee meets in November to discuss and vote on proposed changes. The code is expected to be finalized by May 2023.
Join Us For an Upcoming Webinar: Unpacking the 2024 Residential IECC Public Comment Draft
Tuesday, November 15
10:00-11:00 am PT / 1:00-2:00 pm ET
The 2024 Residential IECC draft was developed over months of committee and subcommittee hearings and a balloting process that required a two-thirds approval vote ahead of the public release.
Now, anyone can comment on the code language that jurisdictions will depend on for the next four years to make good on their climate commitments.
Join NBI and NRDC experts for a webinar that will summarize the major changes proposed, the process for submitting public comments, and ways that stakeholders can influence this critical code cycle for addressing climate change. This course is registered with AIA as a continuing education course for architects.
Mark Lyles
Senior Program Manager
New Buildings Institute
Lauren Urbanek
Deputy Director, Clean Buildings Climate & Clean Energy Program NRDC
Several federal funding opportunities for code adoption and implementation stemming from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are on the horizon. The most immediate of these opportunities is the Resilient and Efficient Codes Implementation (RECI) funding opportunity, which is expected to be released in November. The funding was initiated under the IIJA, and is designed to support “sustained cost-effective implementation of updated building energy codes.”
If you are interested in partnering with Codes for Climate experts on a potential project, please let us know by sending an email to Erin Beddingfield by November 30.
Illinois started the development of the state’s first stretch energy code. The Commercial and Residential Illinois Energy Advisory Council began meeting in September with the goal of finalizing the state stretch code by December 2023.
Resources
NBI’s Existing Building Decarbonization Code provides the first off-the-shelf solution (as an overlay to the 2021 IECC) for jurisdictions looking to transform energy codes into decarbonization codes for buildings. Download this free resource here.
Codes for Climate in the News
NBI’s director of codes Kim Cheslak was awarded the International Codes Council’s National Leadership in Sustainability and Energy Efficiency Award at their recent annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, last month. She was recognized for outstanding contributions to the growth and enhancement of codes or public policy espousing the principles of the Code Council Sustainability Membership Council. Read more.
Kim Cheslak was quoted in S&P Global Market Intelligencediscussing Washington DC’s debate over banning natural gas in new commercial construction. The provision did not make it into this code cycle, but is expected to be included in the next iteration of DC’s commercial code.
NBI’s director of policy Jim Edelson presented on Energy Codes, Climate Policy, and Federalism in the United States at the first-ever International Building Decarbonization Conference, organized by ASHRAE’s Task Force for Building Decarbonization and the Hellenic Chapter, in Athens, Greece.
Save the Date: 2023 Getting to Zero Forum, May 10-12, 2023 (Minneapolis, MN)
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