Building energy codes—policies that traditionally set minimum requirements for buildings'
energy use—have proven effective and efficient for building decarbonization. As …

Abstract China's Design Standard for Energy Efficiency of Public Buildings (the Design
Standard) is widely used in the design phase to regulate the energy efficiency of physical …

Building additional floor area while reducing the environmental impact of embodied carbon
(EC) is urgent in the context of simultaneously increasing urban density and global warming …

The US Building Energy Asset Score helps building stakeholders quickly gain insight into
the efficiency of building systems (envelope, electrical and mechanical systems). A robust …

This paper presents an optimization model that will be used for the impact analysis of new
net zero energy ready model building codes, and to support the local authorities for the …

Energy codes have always included prescriptive compliance pathways and they are the
most commonly used path for compliance. These prescriptive requirements are expressed …

Like many countries, Canada's building code includes a performance compliance path that
compares the energy use of a proposed design to that of a reference house. Today …

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are
develo** a series of technical briefs supporting national, state, and local initiatives update …

The prescriptive path is the most widely used approach for commercial code compliance in
the United States. Though easy to implement, prescriptive approaches do not typically …

Zero net energy (ZNE) buildings of different types have been designed and verified in
various climates. However, as California, New York, and other states and jurisdictions march …