Codes + Standards, Lighting Design

2009 IECC Requires 50% of Lamps in Home to be High-Efficacy

home-buildingHere’s an article I wrote for the July issue of Electrical Contractor Magazine on the topic of a new residential lighting provision in the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), used by most states as the basis of their residential energy codes, that requires 50% of lamps in newly built homes to be “high efficacy”–that is, fluorescent, at least at this point.

The approach has its critics. What do you think?

Check out the article here.

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Craig DiLouie

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