Creating an Innovative Building Design through Creative, Adaptive Architecture, Engineering, and Collaboration
Meeting developing building standards, codes and assuming best practices to support high-performance buildings, will require architects and engineers to collaborate holistically.
Meeting developing code requirements to reduce carbon emissions while creating environments with better IAQ will challenge and impact conventional building HVAC system designs.
In June 2018, the City of Phoenix adopted an amended version of the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC). The U.S. Department of Energy in July 2021 issued the determination that ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2019 will be the performance standard municipal code authorities are mandated to adopt since it offers from 4% to 5% more energy savings than the 2016 version. On July 1, 2023, the City of Scottsdale put into effect the IECC-2021 code that adopts ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2019 for commercial buildings.