DOE Establishes 90.1-2013 as Building Energy-Efficiency Standard

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a ruling that establishes ASHRAE/IES’s 2013 energy-efficiency standard as the commercial building reference standard for state building energy codes. The move comes after preliminary analysis that the 2013 standard contains energy savings over the 2010 — specifically, 8.5 percent source energy savings and 7.6 percent site energy […]