Midwest Energy News: A family buying a home built to the new code standard will save between $10,000 and $11,000 on their energy bills over the course of their mortgage, the report says. […]

TucsonCitizen.com: Pima County and the City of Tucson are the first governmental jurisdictions in the nation to develop a building standard to achieve Net-Zero energy. A new Pima County web site provides you with the tools to design "Net-Zero" energy homes, apartments, offices and retail buildings. The website, http://www.pima.gov/netzero, has a re […]

DOE: As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy, Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the winners of a competition that challenges collegiate students to develop and present real-world solutions to boost the energy efficiency of buildings across the country. […]

The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) has developed a comprehensive Energy Code Compliance webinar that will educate the metal building specifiers, contractors and builders on how to navigate and utilize today's energy codes and standards as they apply to metal building systems, and incorporate the MBMA Energy Design Guide for Metal Buildi […]

Residential Lighting magazine will host its second webinar on new legislation and its effect on lighting design with speaker Joe Rey-Barreau, AIA, on March 29. The webinar, titled Energy Codes and Federal Legislation Affecting Lighting Design in 2012, is sponsored by Eurofase, Lutron, Nora Lighting and St. James Lighting. […]