§16193 National Building Performance Initiative

Summary

The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy must set up an interagency group within 90 days after August 8, 2005 to develop a National Building Performance Initiative. That group will be co‑chaired by officials from the Department and the Department of Commerce and will bring together Federal, State, and voluntary private efforts to cut the costs of building construction, operation, maintenance, and renovation for commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential buildings. The Department of Energy will lead the parts of the Initiative about energy use and savings. Within one year after August 8, 2005, the group must send Congress a plan that covers research, testing, and commercial use of energy technologies for building parts and systems, tools for automated energy‑efficient building operation, and ways to collect and share findings with industry, government, and the public. An advisory committee will study private‑sector roles and review the plan. No agency gets new rule‑making power from this effort.