TY - Conference paper AU - Carolyn Sarno Goldthwaite AU - Lauren Westmoreland PY - 2016 T1 - Regional construction starts: trends, impacts and energy codes PB - 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, 21-26 August 2016, Pacific Grove, United States DO - https://doi.org/APO-217556 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/217556 AB - 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. ER -