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IECC Compliance: Prescriptive vs. Performance

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When it comes to the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), there are two distinct approaches to making your project compliant: the prescriptive or the performance methods. Both are radically different in how they handle IECC compliance in general.  “Prescriptive” method as I use it here refers to treating IECC compliance as following a set of […]

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