Last week, on Dec. 28, 2009, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg signed the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan, a group of four bills designed to reduce the city’s carbon footprint by 5 percent. The legislation provides for the creation of a New York City Energy Conservation Code, the benchmarking of water and energy use performance, the upgrading of lighting during major renovations, and the conducting of energy audits and retro-commissioning. The New York City Council passed the legislation on Dec. 9, 2009. This article offers a summary of the legislation.1
Energy Conservation Code
Intro 564A creates the first New York City Energy Conservation Code (NYCECC) to ensure compliance with the New York State Energy Code in New York City (“Code”). It also requires, with some exceptions, all renovation projects to meet the Code’s energy efficiency requirements by closing a loophole in the Code that, essentially, exempted renovations in existing buildings where less than 50 percent of the building’s systems or subsystems were replaced.2 The practical effect of the NYCECC is that now all plans for new construction and renovation projects requiring building permits must be analyzed for energy efficiency and certified as in compliance with the NYCECC by the applicants.
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