TY - Conference paper AU - Donald Boza AU - Chad Miller AU - Joshua Rego AU - et al. PY - 2016 T1 - You can’t make bricks without straw: building a residential energy code support program from a utility perspective PB - 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, 21-26 August 2016, Pacific Grove, United States DO - https://doi.org/APO-217441 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/217441 AB - Improvements in building energy codes cannot be fully realized unless targeted stakeholder education, training and outreach is provided to support increased understanding of and compliance with the minimum requirements. With Michigan’s adoption of the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), an analysis determined statewide annual energy savings of approximately 480,000 MMBtu and $4 million in annual utility bill savings for homeowners from bringing below code residential new construction up to minimum requirements. ER -