Final Report on Energy Impacts of Commercial Building Code Compliance in Massachusetts

Mark Frankel and Sean Denniston
New Buildings Institute

Kevin Madison and Jeremy Lerond
Madison Engineering

Energy codes are a powerful tool to drive improvements in energy performance of new buildings.  This report discusses the latest analysis of the impacts of the energy code on commercial buildings and whether developers have been able to incorporate better technologies or responded effectively to utility incentives.  The analysis suggests that buildings who are in compliance with the energy code are using less energy than baseline prototypes.

The study can be found here – MA compliance energy analysis 20180520