FLORIDA BUILDING COMMISSION

Energy Technical Advisory Committee

Tampa, Florida

May 7, 2007

Minutes

 

The meeting was convened by Chair Dale Greiner at 1:00 p.m. A quorum was achieved with nine voting members present: Bob Cochell, Philip Fairey, Jan Geyselaers, Dale Greiner, Don Kitner, Jim Larsen, Maury Jacobson, Richard Reynolds and Roger Sanders. The meeting was facilitated by Jeff Blair.

 

Meeting Objectives:

1 Discuss and provide a recommendation to the Commission on a request for Declaratory Statement, DCA07-DEC-048, by Joseph W. Broughton, PE, of Burgess Engineering, concerning Sections 13-415.1.ABC.1.1 and 13-415.1.ABC.1.2 of the FBC, Building.
   
2 Review draft versions of Chapter 11, the energy provisions, of the Residential code and provide input to staff on how the old and new code compliance methods are to be integrated.

 

Actions Taken:

 

The 5/7/07 agenda and minutes from the 3/27/07 meeting were unanimously approved.

 

ACTION: On a motion from Fairey and a second from Cochell, the TAC unanimously approved the following disposition of DCA07-DEC-048:

1 To the question , Am I correct in saying that these buildings, despite being less than 5,000 s.f., shall have occupancy sensors installed to turn off the lighting within 30 minutes of the occupants leaving the various rooms and offices? , the answer is: NO, only classrooms (except shop classrooms, laboratory classrooms and preschool through 12 th grade classrooms), conference/meeting rooms and employee lunch and break rooms have to have a control device installed that automatically turns lighting off within 30 minutes of all occupants leaving a space except spaces with multi-scene control.
   
2 To the question, Does Section 13-415.1.ABC.1.1 only pertain to the rooms exempted from section 13-415.1.ABC.1.2 and larger open storage/warehouse spaces in buildings that are larger than 5,000 s.f.?, the answer is NO, Section 13-415.1.ABC.1.1 applies to all buildings larger than 5,000 s.f. (with exceptions for security lighting).

 

Chair Dale Greiner asked Ann Stanton, DCA staff, to explain the draft rewrites of the residential energy code. Stanton described the task of integrating a number of approved code modifications and TAC actions into mod 2327, the proposed new Chapter 11 of the Florida Building Code, Residential , as an intermediate step to revising Subchapter 6 of Chapter 13 of the Florida Building Code, Building . Of the two drafts available for review, the TAC unanimously approved use of Revision 2 on a motion by Geyselaers, and provided comments on its improvement. Revision 3 of the document will be placed online next week for additional code comments during the duration of the comment period.

 

The meeting was adjourned by Chair Greiner at 4:15 p.m.