This 2022 Nonresidential and Multifamily Compliance manual is designed to help building owners, architects, engineers, designers, energy consultants, builders, enforcement agencies, contractors and installers, and manufacturers comply with and enforce the California Building Energy Efficiency Standards (Energy Code) for nonresidential and multifamily buildings. The manual is a reference and instructional guide for anyone involved in the design and construction of energy-efficient nonresidential and multifamily buildings.
New for the 2022 Energy Code, the multifamily requirements have been grouped together regardless of number of stories. For this manual, all multifamily requirements are located in chapter 11. Where the requirements for multifamily common areas follow the nonresidential requirements, chapter 11 refers back to the appropriate nonresidential chapters.
Fourteen chapters make up the manual:
Chapter 1 Introduction of the Energy Code, application, and scope
Chapter 2 Compliance and enforcement process, including design and the preparation of compliance documentation through acceptance testing
Chapter 3 Building envelope
Chapter 4 Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems and water heating systems
Chapter 5 Indoor lighting
Chapter 6 Outdoor lighting
Chapter 7 Sign lighting for indoor and outdoor applications
Chapter 8 Electrical power distribution
Chapter 9 Solar-ready requirements
Chapter 10 Covered processes requirements.
Chapter 11 Multifamily
Chapter 12 Performance approach
Chapter 13 Commissioning requirements
Chapter 14 Acceptance test requirements
Cross-references within the manual use the word “Section,” while references to sections in the Energy Code are represented by “§.”