Answering the Tough Questions About Energy Codes Buildings and Beyond - Steven Winter Associates, Inc.

What happens when you put four sustainable building experts involved in energy code development in a room and ask them to bring their favorite—and sometimes, most controversial—topics for discussion? You end up with more questions than answers!

In this roundtable episode hosted by Robb Aldrich, our guests ask each other these tough questions related to our nation's energy codes:

Performance Metrics: How can energy codes be simplied? Is energy utilization intensity (EUI) a viable alternate metric?

Gas Bans: If jurisdictions cannot ban gas, how can we put electrification in the energy code?

Embodied Carbon: How should embodied carbon accounting be incorporated into energy codes?

Robb's Bonus Question #1: How are buiding inspectors dealing with complicated energy codes?

Robb's Bonus Question #2: Should there be electric vehicle (EV) charging requirements in energy codes?

Episode Guests

Gayathri Vijayakumar, Principal Mechanical Engineer on SWA's Residential Building Services Team

Karla Butterfield, Sustainability Director on SWA's Residential Building Services Team

William Zoeller, Director of Building Enclosure Services at SWA

Dylan Martello, Senior Building Systems Consultant on SWA's Passive House Team

Host: Robb Aldrich, Principal Mechanical Engineer on SWA's Residential Building Services Team