This conference will provide a unique opportunity for dialog among participants to facilitate understanding of current energy saving efforts, share best practices, and capture the scale needed to accomplish these goals. […]

Hong Kong: The 2012 edition of the Building Energy Code and the Energy Audit Code have been gazetted, and take immediate effect. The two codes of practice provide technical details for the full implementation of the Buildings Energy Efficiency Ordinance, which will come into effect in September. […]

Structural Insulated Panel Association: Faced with the additional measures in these standards, more and more builders are looking at SIPs as a simple solution for energy-efficient building enclosures. Here are some concise guides on how SIPs can save builders time and money when it comes to meeting the new energy codes and ENERGY STAR Version 3. […]

Architectural Record: New York City's adoption of new green building codes are expected to result in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 5% and saving $400 million by 2030, says a recently released report from the Urban Green Council, the U.S. Green Building Council's New York chapter. The codes are also expected to divert 100,000 tons of asphalt […]

EERE: DOE announced on January 26 that Houston, Texas, is joining DOE's Better Buildings Challenge. Houston is the latest community to join the challenge, a public-private partnership that seeks to improve energy efficiency by 20% in commercial, government, and school buildings across the country by 2020. […]