Minutes

The meeting was convened by Chair Dale Greiner at 3:00 p.m. A quorum was achieved with eight voting members present: Steve Bassett, Bob Cochell, Jan Geyselaers, Dale Greiner, Donald Kitner, Richard Reynolds, Roger Sanders and Philip Fairey. Staff support was provided by Ann Stanton.

Meeting Objectives:

1. Review/approve agenda and minutes of the January 28, 2008 TAC meeting.

2. Review proposed code changes required by Executive Order 127 to make the code 15% more stringent by January, 2009, and provide comments to the Rule Development Workshop on Rule 9B-13 to be held before the Florida Building Commission on March 19, 2008.

3. Discussion of the U.S. Department of Energy’s new authority for regional ratings for air conditioning equipment with regard to consideration for hot and humid climates.

Actions Taken:

The agenda and minutes of the 1/28/08 meeting were unanimously approved.

Rick Dixon went over the summary of energy code revisions proposed under Rule 9B-13 as required by Executive Order 127. Changes to Subchapter 13-1, 13-2 and 13-3 of the Florida Building Code, Building were made to update commercial building features to ASHRAE 90.1-2007.

Comments were accepted on proposals made to Subchapter 13-4 of the Florida Building Code, Building, and Appendix 13-B for commercial buildings that generally updated the code to reflect ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007 and the ASHRAE Design Guidelines for office and retail buildings less than 20,000 s.f. and K-12 schools.

Comments were accepted on proposals made to Subchapter 13-6 and Appendix 13-C and 13-D of the Florida Building Code, Building and Chapter 11 and Appendix G of the Florida Building Code, Residential for residential buildings. Residential proposals primarily applied to changing the baseline features to increase code efficiency of Method A by 15% and proposals to make Form 1100B 15% more stringent.

Governor’s Office proposals to modify standards for products currently covered by the code and include certain types of appliances in the code were described and discussed.

The following straw polls were taken by the TAC in an attempt to address issues raised by public comment on residential baseline features:

1) Sanders: Change glazing baselines to FMA proposed option.

Straw poll of TAC: 5 aye, 3 nay.

2) Fairey: Recommend window U-factors of 0.75 in south Florida, 0.6 in central Florida, 0.5 in north Florida; leave SHGC 0.30 statewide. TAC straw poll on Fairey proposal: 3 aye, 5 nay.

3) Bassett, Geyselaers: Why not just move the baseline to 0.85 of 2007 level?

TAC straw poll on Bassett, Geyselaers proposal: 8 aye, 0 nay.

The meeting was adjourned by Chair Greiner at 5:45 p.m.