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MBPE forwards commercial energy‑code package to council after C406 overhaul, modeling plan
Summary
The MBPE committee on July 18 voted to send the commercial energy‑code package to the Building Code Council with two clerical amendments. The tag overhauled the C406 credit tables and planned modeling by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to set point values tied to site energy.
The MBPE committee forwarded the commercial energy‑code package to the Building Code Council on July 18, endorsing the tag’s extensive work on the C406 interactive credit tables and other updates and approving two clerical corrections.
Major change: C406 overhaul. The commercial tag substantially reworked the C406 credit-option tables (proposal 279), turning a single table into several interacting tables that aim to allocate credit values based on site energy. The tag’s intent was to combine the prior prescriptive heat‑pump prescriptive path and the fossil‑fuel path into a unified baseline so credit values could be awarded in graduated steps (e.g., appliances at code-minimum, 5% better, 10% better, etc.). The tag said modeling is necessary to set final point values for credits so the package tracks the council’s codified glide path toward 2030 goals.
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