ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acuity Brands (NYSE: AYI), a market leader in innovative energy efficient lighting and control solutions has announced a first of its kind industry reference site that combines up-to date energy codes from multiple jurisdictions into a single source that can be used by designers of lighting and advanced controls applications. For engineers and architects, finding the applicable energy codes, as well as related compliance details, has posed tremendous challenges. Where to go for accurate and up-to-date energy codes? That was the challenge design-assist engineers at Acuity Brands’ Lighting Control & Design (LC&D) faced when assisting architects and engineers with designing and optimizing energy-efficient lighting control solutions. Experience had shown that “energy code” Websites from the Department of Energy (DOE) and Building Codes Assistance Project (BCAP) were inadequate for providing the necessary information. These Websites sometimes fail to stay up-to-date, lack compliance requirements, or omit various jurisdictions that publish their own codes. The Acuity Brands’ LC&D team decided to do something about the lack of a unified resource. They developed a database of every code official in every jurisdiction in the United States known to have its own code requirements, and implemented a quarterly phone survey to each code official to verify or update state energy codes, locally adopted energy codes and local variances from state codes.
