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Support Resources for Building Codes
The following resources can be used to support more detailed design and implementation of building energy codes.
Building Energy Codes Portal Supports Global Knowledge Sharing
The Building Energy Codes Portal was developed to support peer learning and knowledge sharing among stakeholders engaged with building code design and implementation globally. Through collaborative input from the founding organizations – IPEEC, GBPN, and PNNL – the web portal provides information on:
- Effective codes implemented around the world including scope and stages of development
- Enforcement mechanisms to support successful outcomes
- Tools and training resources to support code design and implementation, including testing and rating building materials to ensure compliance
In addition, the web portal will integrate further peer learning features and best practice materials in the future.
Source: www.gbpn.org/beet-3
Networks and Good Practice Resources
- Global Buildings Performance Network: Databases and Tools, Building Energy Efficiency: Best Practice Policies and Policy Packages
- Building Effeciency Initiative: Driving Transformation to Energy Efficient Buildings: Policies and Actions: Building Efficiency Codes and Standards
- International Energy Agency: Modernising Building Energy Codes to Secure our Clean Energy Future
- International Energy Conservation Code: Resource Page
- IPEEC: Building Energy Efficiency Task Force, Delivering Energy Savings in Buildings
- SEE Action: Energy Efficiency Policy and Program Resources
- U.S. Department of Energy: Achieving Energy Savings and Emission Reductions from Building Energy Codes: A Primer for State Planning
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Energy and Environment Guide to Action
- Whole Building Design Guide: Building Codes and Standards
Policy Examples and Databases
- Building Energy Codes Portal
- Buildings Energy Efficiency Policies Database
- Clean Energy Solutions Center: Feed-in Tariffs Resources
- Database of State Incentives for Renewable and Efficiency (DSIRE)
- IEA: Policies and Measures (PAMS) database
- REEEP: Policy Database
- REN21: Interactive Map and various publications
Webinars and Training Resources
- Clean Energy Solutions Center: Implementing Building Energy Codes
- U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Code Compliance and Enforcement Good Practices