mjan

The last two houses I designed (one new, one a major addition) are the first times I was faced with meeting the USDE energy efficiency "code", REScheck. Both were in Lake County, Ohio, whose building code makes you (the designer or architect) fill out the computer program input fields and satisfy the "efficiency" requirements before you can get a buidling permit. Those requirements, plus enforcement by inspectors who care about it, will be the drivers that force both builders and designers/architects to deliver energy efficiency houses (just one aspect of being "green") to homebuyers and homeowners.