Status of commercial building energy code adoption (U.S. DOE 2018 a & b). For the prescriptive procedure, boiler efficiency rating is used directly in order to show compliance by meeting its minimum ...

Despite the necessary credentials and evidence-based performance, these and other innovative technologies sometimes are not allowed to be used partly because of code administrators’ unease or lack of ...

Pictured: Example of computational fire modeling in a large industrial manufacturing facility. The model shows the fire location, and outputs information such as heat release rate and visibility, ...

Rainier Square Tower, under construction in Seattle, is one of the buildings considered for the development of a performance-based wind design manual for tall buildings. Photo Courtesy of ...