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SEP Special Project, Hawaii, 2005
This project wrote a state-of-the-art Model Tropical Code tailored to local conditions in the sponsoring organizations of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Hawaii, and promulgated the tailored codes to design professionals and decision-makers. The Tropical code project hired a highly qualified energy code consultant to achieve efficient and healthy buildings in the tropics and educate nontechnical decision-makers as to the sociological viability of a proposed code in addition to its technical and economic merits. The consultant researched and selected elements of code documents and drafted a Model Tropical Code tailored to tropics conditions and traveled to participants' headquarters to meet with task forces, state energy personnel, public works officials, utility management, and private sector design professionals to modify the Model Tropical Code to local conditions. All participants will attend the 2006 and 2007 National Energy Code Workshops sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy to report on Tropical Code progress and learn of recent code and technological breakthroughs. Participants may introduce code legislation. If the code is not adopted, participants may confer with the consultant on modifying the code to address legislators concerns and re-introduce. The consultant will prepare and present a grant-end Model Code report, detailing each participants amendments and a summary of legislative experience. The report will be made available to all nations in the tropical climate zone.
Topics
Energy Building Codes
DOE Funding
Building Energy Codes
$149,986
Contact Hawaii's State Energy Office for more information.
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