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March/April 2010 Issue
The International Energy Conservation Code 2009 
by David Weitz
2009 Code includes three groundbreaking changes to residential building requirements.
National energy codes got their start in 1975, when, in response to the oil embargo three years previous to that, Congress passed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA). EPCA was amended most significantly in 1992 with the passage of the better-known Energy Policy Act (EPACT), which empowered the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish and regularly update a national requirement for energy-efficient residential and commercial buildings. The basis for the residential standard was the Model Energy Code (MEC), which at that time was jointly overseen by the three regional code development associations. (In 1994 the International Conference of Building...
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