Welcome to business session.

Our first item is approval of minutes for business session of February 22nd.

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We're moving second that we approve the minutes for business session of February 22nd.

All in favor?

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Perfect.

All right.

We'll proceed with our items.

Our first is International Energy Conservation Code Implementation.

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Hello, everybody.

Thank you so much for having Metropolitan Energy Center here to speak on the policy in Kansas City, Missouri.

We've had multiple meetings with the city planning department and contractors, and I am going to talk to you about the code and what we found currently.

Metropolitan Energy Center is a 40-year-old non-forprofit that specializes in best practices and energy reduction and transportation and buildings.

For the sake of time, I'm gonna leave it there, but feel free to ask me questions.

Same with my own bio.

I'm gonna be very brief.

Today we are going to have an um review of what an energy code really is, where it comes from, why it's so crucial, and then we're going to share the good news about the tidal wave of funds that are here and still coming in waves that are accessible for cities and contractors.

Um we'll conclude.

So the energy code has discussed.

And including contractors, developers, home builders association, designers, um, energy efficiency professionals, building science experts, and it's not negotiated, discussed, planned, tested, calculated every three years and published every three years.

So in other words, this is not something that you know just as come up by some somebody uh that feels a certain way about things.

It is negotiated by a wide swath of um participants in this committee.

The uh adoption process in Kansas City, Missouri, as many of you here are aware, um, was long and careful.

Um it included uh regional industry experts within the development contractor community, designer community, and then also, as you know, um the community leadership, neighborhoods, constituents, everybody took part in uh the discussion leading up to this passage in um 2022.

Um Metropolitan Energy Center's role is to help support this transition by uh training.

And we started that training in 2022 and have since had multiple um courses.

This information is actually just a little bit out of date because we just completed our first training, or excuse me, our our um seventh training this week, and so we've had a number of attendees this week that puts that closer to 200 attendees across most of the regional um suburbs and across the state line and Kansas City, Missouri's um building and planning department has sent multiple staff to these trainings, um and we will continue these trainings in 2024, and this will be not only to municipal staff and building code officials, but also continuing with denying designers, contractors, etc.

So I want to just show you a little bit about um in picture, picture tells a thousand words, um, about what the crucial role the energy code plays in the building itself and how it impacts the occupants of said buildings.

It's not just about saving a few pennies on your utility bills, although that is important to many um of our constituents, but it's plays a crucial role in human health, the durability of the structure, and the comfort of the structure, besides, of course, that important affordability.

So what I want to show this is a little key because I'm gonna have several slides of examples of homes that were built prior to the new code package being passed.

So you can visualize what the new code package is going to correct.

So this slide here has two pictures of the same spot.

The left one is a digital photo of wall and ceiling intersection, and then the right side is an infrared photo, and depending on when the infrared photo is taken, is going to show you the color key.

So this photo was taken in the summer, and so the orange yellow shows inefficiencies in the installation of the insulation.

So those are hot spots.

The orange, red, yellow or hot spots in the summer where the insulation is not doing its job because it was poorly installed.

I want to just go real quickly into a quick reason why this is happening.

So this may seem um fundamental, but I learned this when I got into this for the first time when I got into this field of work.

Umergy can only move in one direction.

It moves from hot to cold, never the reverse.

That is the first law of thermal dynamics, it's physics.

Um the speed of transfer depends on the temperature differential between the two structure, two areas, and um the type of material.

So that's why you know, a wrought iron pan on the stove.

Um, you need a hot pad to hold the handle as it heats up on the stove, even though the handle isn't sitting over the flame, because that that cast iron is going through the uh the handle.

So we have just a visual then of energy escaping through an uninsulated wall, and less energy escaping through an insulated wall.

Again, I'm sorry if this is fundamental, um, but I this helps me orient.

So when you look at how this is um, this law of thermodynamics interacts with our building structures, and again, these photos are from the previous code that was overwritten by the current policy.

And these are not anomalies, these are just samples, and these are examples of photos that energy efficiency professionals, otherwise known as home energy rating uh home energy raiders, take pictures of and report back on.

So this is a digital photo in an attic of under insulated, completely uninsulated in part a vault ceiling taken from the attic.

This transfers in a summer picture to you can see now heat infiltrating from this uninsulated vault to the house.

So that is now going to be heat that the air conditioning is going to have to remove.

Secondly, I add I cleared this picture.

This is a rim joist in the basement because this is so common in our area of just insulation smashed and shoved into this wall space.

And if you look at it with an infrared camera, there's the heat again bypassing the smashed in uh poorly installed uh wind joist.

And this is a photo taken in the winter, so it's reverse.

So that blue square is a cold spot where there's no insulation above on the ceiling, for example.