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The State of
BUILDING
PERFORMANCE
RESNET’s 2017 Building Performance Conference
focused on energy code performance.
BY STEVE BADEN
N EARLY SPRING, more than A special focus of the RESNET conference was energy code
performance. The conference offered the following breakout
800 building performance
sessions on energy codes:
professionals and the HERS
■ ■ New Option to Compliance to Energy Codes: The Energy
Rating industry gathered in Rating Index Performance Option of the IECC
Scottsdale, Ariz., for the an- ■ ■ What Are the Big Changes with the 2018 International
Energy Conservation Code
nual RESNET Building Per-
■ Expand Your Business Opportunity: HERS Raters
formance Conference, a na- ■
Becoming ICC Certified Energy Code Inspectors
tional forum on home energy
■ ■ What’s New with Codes and Standards
ratings, building codes, and
■ ■ Home Energy Rating Index Studies – How Does The
energy policy and programs. Energy Code Stack Up to Currently Rated Homes
At the conference’s general ■ ■ Energy Code Field Study Results and Opportunities for
Program Administrators – How the Rating Industry has
session, RESNET Board Pres- Affected Code Compliance
ident Roy Honican announced ■ Energy Rating Index (ERI) – More Than a HERS Rating
■
Ithat in 2016 there were 206,583 ■ ■ What Are the Goals with Energy Codes?
HERS rated homes in the United States. The average
Of particular interest was the session on “What Are the
HERS Index score was 61. This is 39% more efficient Goals with Energy Codes?” The session featured a discussion
that looked into what should be goal of energy codes. The
than a home built in 2006. The added energy perfor- discussion represented a divergence of opinion from
mance of the rated homes is calculated to result in an builders and code advocates. Panelists included Clayton
Traylor of the Leading Builders of America, David Goldstein
annual savings of $268 million for the families who of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Bill Fay of the
purchased these homes and an annual reduction of Energy Efficient Codes Coalition. CW
over 905,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Steve Baden is the executive director of RESNET.
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