Table of Contents

Green Building

This article discusses the challenges and approaches to regulating energy-efficiency upgrades for renovated commercial buildings. It addresses the need to update energy regulations to better accommodate redevelopment of commercial buildings. The article highlights strategies and recommendations to encourage such redevelopment with greater energy efficiency and less administrative burden.

Historic Preservation

This article discusses the effectiveness and enforceability of new energy codes on historic commercial buildings. It reviews different regulatory strategies and urges planners to include code officials in the early stages of adaptive reuse projects to avoid conflict.