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This website has been developed to provide users with information about energy codes and beyond code technologies. You can SEARCH by keyword, or BROWSE the available topics.Resources are available in a variety of different media types, including Articles, Graphics, Online Tools, Presentations, and Videos. The BECP Resource Center gathers content not only from their archives, but also provides links to energy code resources from around the web.

US DOE Website- BECP develops and maintains free software and tools to support energy codes and standards, REScheck software for low-rise residential building energy code compliance, and the COMcheck software for commercial building energy code compliance, and conducts outreach and deployment activities related to energy codes and high-performance sustainably designed buildings

Energy Codes, studies and energy efficiency experts all agree that a critical requirement to obtaining maximum performance and efficiency from heat and cooling systems is to correctly size the equipment and distribution systems. This is the design software I used in my previous career as an HVAC contractor. In my current career as a building code official, I require a design based on this or another approved software for all new mechanical systems.