Course 213: Integrating Performance-based Compliance into the Design Process
Training Description
This training explains how energy modeling can be integrated into the building design process to support design decisions and performance-based compliance with the 2025 New York State Energy Conservation Construction Code. The course uses the framework of ANSI/ASHRAE/IBPSA Standard 209-2024, Building Performance Simulation Process, to illustrate how energy modeling evolves from early conceptual design through construction documents and how modeling can inform decisions while design options are still flexible.
Key topics include establishing project performance goals, benchmarking, load reduction, HVAC system selection, design refinement, system integration and optimization, and evaluation of design alternatives. Examples illustrate how energy modeling can inform decisions related to the building envelope, ventilation, HVAC systems, lighting and internal loads, service water heating, and controls, including interactions among these systems and their effects on building performance and compliance.
The training also highlights 2025 New York State Energy Code provisions that can affect performance-based compliance outcomes, including envelope trade-off limitations, renewable energy requirements, ventilation and energy recovery requirements, electric-resistance heating limitations, thermal bridging, and the effect of energy source and the selected compliance metric. The course concludes with high-performance design case studies for multifamily, hotel, office, and school buildings, along with quizzes and examples that reinforce practical application of the design-process concepts.
Target Audience
Energy modelers, design professionals.
Prerequisites
Two years of experience in commercial or multifamily building design, operation, maintenance, energy code enforcement, or related fields, or equivalent education.
Completion of 102 and 111 and/or 112: Performance-based Compliance with ASHRAE Standard 90.1 or equivalent work experience.
Learning Objectives
Recognize the benefits of incorporating energy modeling early in the design process.
Describe the progression of energy modeling from conceptual design through construction documents using the ASHRAE Standard 209 modeling framework.
Identify common design decisions made during schematic design and design development that can significantly affect performance-based compliance outcomes.
Identify key provisions of the 2025 ECCCNYS that limit trade-off opportunities under the performance paths.
Recognize design decisions that can result in performance credits or penalties under performance-based compliance.
Continuing Education
New York Department of State: 3 In-Service Hours (Energy Code) - Approval Pending
Submitted for AIA CES approval