Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§13454 Advanced buildings for 2005

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 134— - ENERGY POLICY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IX— - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT › Part Part A— - Improved Energy Efficiency › § 13454

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must start a five-year program to make buildings more energy efficient while keeping them affordable by the year 2005. The program will work on things like building design and construction, building materials (including recycled ones), on-site energy systems such as solar, automated energy controls, ways to test performance, and insulation made without ozone-harming materials. Within one year after October 24, 1992, the Secretary must ask for proposals to carry out the program. Proposals must show knowledge of current building practices, explain how the work will help get new technologies on the market, show plans to work with Department of Energy labs and with industry or other groups, and prove the proposers can finish the project.

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Title 42, §13454

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(a)The Secretary shall initiate a 5-year program, in accordance with section 13541 and 13542 of this title, to increase building energy efficiency, while maintaining affordability, by the year 2005. Such program shall include activities on—

(1)building design, design methods, and construction techniques;

(2)building materials, including recycled materials, and components;

(3)on-site energy supply conversion systems such as photovoltaics;

(4)automated energy management systems;

(5)methods of evaluating performance; and

(6)insulation products manufactured with nonozone depleting materials.

(b)(1)Within 1 year after October 24, 1992, the Secretary shall solicit proposals for conducting activities under this section.

(2)Proposals submitted under this subsection shall include and be judged upon—

(A)evidence of knowledge of current building practices in the United States and in other countries;

(B)an explanation of how the proposal will encourage the commercialization of the technologies resulting from activities in subsection (a);

(C)evidence of consideration of collaboration with Department of Energy national laboratories;

(D)evidence of collaboration with relevant industry or other groups or organizations; and

(E)a demonstration of the ability of the proposers to undertake and complete the project proposed.

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42 U.S.C. § 13454

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73