New Buildings in the Southwest
Energy Codes and Best Practices
 SWEEP's new study examines the
potential for and benefits from adopting and enforcing up-to-date residential
and commercial energy codes and "best practice" building techniques in
the Southwest states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and
Wyoming. The study examines three scenarios - business-as-usual, moderate
efficiency improvement, and strong efficiency improvement - modeling costs and
energy savings for the latter two scenarios in 2010 and 2020. The study also
makes a series of policy recommendations to promote energy codes and the
construction of highly-efficient new buildings.
The following are links to the executive summary of the study, the complete
study, fact sheets for the six states, and SWEEP's press release announcing the
release of the study. All of the following documents are in Adobe Acrobat®
format and require the free Acrobat Reader software to view them. To obtain your
free copy of Acrobat Reader,
click here.
Increasing Energy Efficiency in New Buildings in the Southwest
State Fact Sheets
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