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Codes to Cleaner Buildings: Effectiveness of United States Building Energy Codes

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Jeff Deason, Andrew Hobbs
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This study estimates the impact of building codes in the United States on energy consumption in the residential sector using state energy consumption data. By conducting a regression analysis comparing states with building energy codes to those without, this report measures the realised energy savings of energy codes and compares them to the modeled estimates.