Presented by Bridget Herring at the Restaurant Energy Education Forum on 1-13-12

1. Why Buildings Matter and Brief
Evolution of Codes
Bridget Herring
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MC Mathis Consulting Company
Bridget@mathisconsulting.com

2. Mathis Consulting Company
• 100+ Years of Experience as Building scientists,
Builders, and Educators
• 4 Terms on the IECC Code Development
Committee
• On IgCC Development Committee
• Principal Investigators for the NC ECC
• Instrumental in Development of ASHRAE 90.1

3. Energy Use in the US…

4. Energy Use in the US…

5. Energy Use in a Typical
Commercial Building

7. Electricity Sources

9. Moving up the Energy Efficiency Hill
Education,
Marketing,
Incentives, etc.
Regulations,
Laws,
Codes Note: The primary
“friction” in the system is
resistance to change…

10. Now Lets Talk About the Push
• What is the code?
– Least safe…
– Least strong…
– Least energy efficient…
Building allowed by law We are not allowed to
build it any crappier

11. Where did the code come from?
• Code of Hammurabi
• The Burning of Rome
• The San Francisco
Earthquake
• Oil Embargo

12. What Did We Do After 1973?

13. So Where is
North Carolina?