A very important detail that gets missed here is that these folks are NOT engineers. They are building department plan examiners, inspectors, firefighters, etc. They do enforcement and implementation, not system-level analysis. It’s kind of like if the police could write the criminal laws.

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🙏 🙏 🙏

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Apparently DOE deleted 15 years worth of analysis, ended support for the IECC, and wrote an angry letter about the IECC.

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This tradeoff is definitely true, but I think we have a lot of fat to cut right now without a tradeoff. That said this is a real problem that was mentioned repeatedly during the conference. I didn’t post about it cuz I’m focused on code changes and process reform.

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One last thought. There is something broken about the way that a trade association owns the codes and it lobbies and PRs aggressively as I am documenting. The public interest in the codes is smoothied up with the private interests of this particular group. Very very uncomfortable.

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