NEW YORK, NY — The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Energy Efficiency Standardization Coordination Collaborative (EESCC) on Wednesday announced the publication of a Progress Report detailing the standardization community’s activity to advance recommendations outlined in the EESCC’s Standardization Roadmap: Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment. Published in June 2014 to serve as a national framework for action and coordination, the roadmap identified gaps where standards and codes were needed to improve energy and water efficiency in the built environment. Pete DeMarco, IAPMO’s Executive Vice President of Advocacy and Research, acted as the lead facilitator for the update.
The Progress Report features updates on 71 of the 109 standards-based gaps identified in the roadmap, demonstrating significant progress within the standardization community to advance energy and water efficiency through standardsbasedsolutions. The report also includes a summary of all of the standards-based roadmap gaps, including those for which there is no known progress at this time, so that readers may easily identify opportunities to take action on closing the gaps.
Read the Progress Report here: http://www.iapmo.org/Documents/EESCC-Progress-Report-2016.pdf
Formed in 2012, the EESCC is a cross-sector, neutral forum and focal point for broad-based coordination among energy efficiency activities involving or impacted by standardization. The goal of the collaborative is to guide, facilitate, and coordinate standardization activities to support greater energy and water efficiency in the United States. More than 160 public- and private-sector experts from industry, federal agencies, standards and code developing organizations, energy and water efficiency-focused organizations, and educational institutions have contributed to the EESCC’s efforts.
“The EESCC’s Progress Report provides an opportunity to see how standards developing organizations (SDOs) are collectively addressing identified knowledge gaps and progressing the building sciences as new information, research, best practices, and emerging technologies become available,” DeMarco said. For more information about the work of the EESCC, visit www.ansi.org/eescc.