§16193 National Building Performance Initiative

Summary

Within 90 days after August 8, 2005, the Office of Science and Technology Policy must set up a team of federal agencies to create a National Building Performance Initiative. That team must be co-led by officials from the Department named in the law and the Department of Commerce and get needed administrative support. The Initiative will bring together federal, state, and private efforts to lower the costs of building construction, operation, maintenance, and renovation for commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential buildings. Within one year after August 8, 2005, the team must send Congress a plan. The plan must cover research and commercial use of energy-saving materials and systems for new and existing buildings, work on automated and efficient building controls, and ways to collect and share results with industry, government, and the public. The named Department will lead federal work on building energy use and conservation. An advisory committee will study private-sector roles and review the plan. No federal agency gets new power to regulate building performance.