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Efficiency Options
(These options only apply to the 2012 IECC, 2016 New York City,
Florida, North Carolina, 2015 IECC, and 2015 Vermont)

The 2012 IECC , 2015 IECC, 2016 New York City, 2015 Vermont, and
North Carolina require one of these additional efficiency features to be
selected for compliance. It is highly recommended that you select the
applicable compliance option before you begin entering details about
your project into the software.

High Performance HVAC

Only certain equipment types will be available for selection on the

Mechanical screen due to the high efficiency criteria. If you cannot
achieve the efficiency required, another system will need to be
considered or use one of the other efficiency options below.

Reduced lighting power density

2012 IECC - total LPD of the building is determined by using the

reduced whole building interior lighting power LPD values x the
floor area for the building types

Must use the Building Area Method

Does not apply to Parking Garage or Penitentiary

building types, so you would need to select either the
High Performance HVAC or the On-site renewable energy

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option

North Carolina - whole building LPDs must be 10% lower than

the table

On-site renewable energy

2012 IECC - total minimum ratings must comply with one of

these:

Provide greater than or equal to 1.75 Btu or greater

than or equal to 0.50 watts per ft2 of conditioned floor
area OR

Provide greater than or equal to 3% of energy used for

mechanical and service water heating equipment and
lighting

North Carolina - provide an energy analysis to document the

renewable energy contribution to the building or a calculation
demonstrating that the on-site supply of renewable energy

is capable of providing at least 3% of the total energy

load of the building OR

provides on-site renewable energy generation with a

nominal (peak) rating of 1.75 Btu or 0.50 watts per ft2 of
building

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The options below apply ONLY to 2015 IECC and 2015 Vermont:

Enhanced digital lighting controls

Dedicated outdoor air system

Reduced energy use in service water heating

Load fraction

The options below apply ONLY to North Carolina:

Energy recovery ventilation systems - buildings using 500 cfm or more

outdoor air to have heat or energy recovery ventilation systems for at
least 80% of ventilation air. Recovery system to provide a change in the
enthalpy of the outdoor air supply of 50% or more of the difference
between the outdoor air and return air at design conditions. Provision to
be made to bypass or control the energy recovery system to permit
cooling with outdoor air where cooling with outdoor air is required.

High efficiency service water heating - only the following building types
may use this compliance method:

hotels or motels

hospitals

restaurants or buildings containing food preparation

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areas

buildings with residential occupancies

buildings with laundry facilities or other high process

service water heating needs

buildings showing a service hot water load of 8% or

more of total building energy loads as shown with an
energy analysis described in Section 507 of the North
Carolina Energy Code.

The building service water heating system to have one of the

following:

instantaneous fuel-fired water heating systems for all

fuel-fired water heating systems

electric heat pump water heating systems

water heating provided by geothermal heat pumps, OR

solar water heating systems sized to provide at least

40% of hot water requirements.

Automatic daylighting control system - a minimum of 30% of the total

conditioned floor area to be daylight zones with automatic controls that
control lights in the daylit areas separately from the non-daylit areas.
Controls for calibration adjustments to the lighting control device shall be

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accessible to authorized personnel. Each daylight control zone shall not exceed
2,500 square feet. Automatic daylighting controls must incorporate an automatic
shut-off ability based on time or occupancy in addition to lighting power reduction
controls.

Controls will automatically reduce lighting power in response to

available daylight by either one of the following methods:

1. Continuous dimming using dimming ballasts and

daylight-sensing automatic controls that are capable of
reducing the power of general lighting in the daylit zone
continuously to less than 35% of rated power at
maximum light output.

2. Stepped Dimming using multi-level switching and

daylight-sensing controls that are capable of reducing
lighting power automatically. The system should provide
at least two control channels per zone and be installed
in a manner such that at least one control step shall
reduce power of general lighting in the daylit zone by
30% to 50% of rated power and another control step
that reduces lighting power by 65% to 100%. Stepped
dimming control is not appropriate in continuously
occupied areas with ceiling heights of 14 feet or lower.