[MassHistPres] Stretch Energy Code

[Aaron Marcavitch]

I would be very interested in hearing as well.  Our Building Inspector said someone is proposing it for Annual Town Meeting this year.

Aaron
Housing Nantucket

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--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Dennis De Witt <djd184 at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Dennis De Witt <djd184 at verizon.net>
> Subject: [MassHistPres] Stretch Energy Code
> To: "MHC MHC listserve" <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 1:32 PM
> A very enthusiastic green group is
> pushing for Brookline to adopt the Stretch Energy
> Code.  It is brand new.  We are told that Newton
> and Cambridge adopted it at the end of 2009.  It’s
> said to be "somewhat similar to an Energy Star rating for
> houses, with third-party testing so that residents are sure
> to get the energy efficiency they’re promised when they
> insulate, improve heating systems, or make other
> improvements." [windows?] It’s also said to be "an
> important step toward the town’s qualifying for new
> funding that is coming available under the Green Communities
> Act" -- whatever that might be.
> 
> The obvious concern is windows.  Most of our green
> folks seem to understand that window replacements do not
> make sense economically -- but sometimes that understanding
> seems a bit fuzzy.  And they allowed two replacement
> window vendors -- one with vinyl windows! --  into a
> recent "green fair" in the H.S. 
> 
> Is anyone else facing this?  
> 
> What can Cambridge and Newton tell us about it?
> 
> One person told me that the accompanying rules were not yet
> in place so that it could be something of a pig in  a
> poke.  I don't know if that's true or not.
> 
> Dennis De Witt
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