Event Description

As the 2022 energy code wraps up its final year, and the 2025 code emerges, the trends of building electrification, healthier indoor air quality, and improved resiliency continue to permeate the code's evolution. This series focuses on current best practices for the implementation of energy strategies, as well as what's around the corner with the new code that will take effect January 1, 2026. With particular focus on the Central Coast region, discuss what to include in construction documents to streamline the permitting process and tips for construction to ease sign-offs and occupancy for each building type.

• Energy Code Implementation: Non-Residential

• Energy Code Implementation: Single Family New Construction

• Energy Code Implementation: Single-Family Additions and Alterations

• Energy Code Implementation: ADUs (this course!)

• Energy Code Implementation: Multi-Family

Learning Objectives:

•  Understand the current and upcoming metrics and standards used in the energy code for evaluating energy performance and indoor air quality, and how choices for electric or gas equipment may impact compliance with those standards.

• Within each building type, review key mandatory measures related to energy performance, ventilation, refrigerants, and insulation, and review potential challenges for integration into design and construction.

• Review the prescriptive recipe card approach versus a building performance approach, and discuss when to use each strategy to best incorporate energy efficiency and healthy interior environments into the specific project design

• Recognize where barriers or stumbling blocks may occur within permitting and construction and tips for documentation to smooth out the process, ultimately increasing the energy efficiency, health, and safety of our buildings.