Prescriptive and performance-based approaches give facilities managers a choice for how to proceed, a building energy specialist says.

Section 1. Purpose. In our country, laws are supposed to provide the certainty and order necessary to foster liberty and innovation. Instead, our vast regulatory structure often serves to constrict ...

Colorado has officially adopted a new building code designed to make homes and offices more climate-friendly without further inflating the state's high cost of living. The Colorado Energy Office ...

Illinois is the latest jurisdiction to release a stretch energy code that provides standards for communities to mandate more efficient building construction. St. Louis, Mo., and a few states, ...

And when the thermometers tick up, so does energy demand due to electricity-hungry air conditioners. The state’s grid ...

Reducing gas use in buildings is tricky for lots of reasons. One of them is a California public utility code that you’ve probably never given much thought to. It’s referred to as the “obligation to ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. FAIRFAX — The City of Fairfax will consider a change to its zoning code that would provide a path for ...

Developers said returning to the 2020 energy code would shave $12,000 off the construction cost of an average home. Republican Gov. Phil Scott is rolling back Vermont’s ambitious energy code and ...