%T Regional construction starts: trends, impacts and energy codes %A Carolyn Sarno Goldthwaite %A Lauren Westmoreland %I 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, 21-26 August 2016, Pacific Grove, United States %D 2016 %K Sustainable building design and construction, %K Building energy codes, %K Energy efficiency, %K Energy saving %U https://apo.org.au/node/217556 %X Does the adoption of new energy codes impact construction activity? As jurisdictions throughout the country continue to adopt increasingly stringent codes, this question is asked time and again. In 2015 the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP) and the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA) each purchased and then independently undertook an analysis of Construction Market Data (CMD) and publically available U.S. %9 Conference paper