Saint-Gobain, through its building products subsidiary CertainTeed Gypsum Inc., received the 2023 Better Project Award from the U.S. Department of Energy on April 19 for the company’s smart energy management system at its Buchanan, New York, gypsum facility.
The U.S. Department of Energy last month released the latest version of the Zero Energy Ready Home requirements for single-family homes. Version 2 of the ZERH requirements included an update of the thermal envelope insulation levels to those required by the 2021 Residential IECC, whereas the previous version (V1 Rev 8) stipulated 2015 IECC thermal insulation requirements.
Bentley Systems has partnered with Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Automatic Building Energy Modeling software suite, or AutoBEM. The software suite is being used in the architecture, city planning, real estate and home efficiency industries. Users take advantage of the suite’s energy modeling of almost all U.S. buildings.
The U.S. Department of Energy recently released the U.S. Energy Employment Report, an annual report that takes a comprehensive look at national and state-level employment data for the clean energy sector.
The DOE and Energy Star programs have all created awareness and inclusion of lower energy demand in the residential sector—but what about the non-residential sector?
This is the first step by the DOE in issuing a ruling that could establish the 2013 standard as the commercial building reference standard for state building energy codes.