Building Codes Assistance Project

BCAP is proud to recognize Mark Halverson for 15 years of valuable contributions to energy code development and implementation. Mark has been working on energy codes for DOE since 1993, shortly after the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, which focused attention on energy codes in general and ASHRAE Standard 90.1-1989 in particular. He has been involved in one way or another in most major changes to the national model commercial building energy codes since then, including the development of ASHRAE Standards 90.1-1999 through 2007 and the 1998 through 2009 versions of the IECC, as well several version of federal commercial building energy standards.

Mark is currently the manager of commercial code development activities with DOE's Building Energy Codes Program (BECP) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He is responsible for all aspects of BECP technical analysis and support as it relates to commercial buildings. In his role at BECP, Mark plays a key role in commercial buildings on the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 90.1, by providing support to ASHRAE as they attempt to achieve 30% savings in American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/ASHRAE/Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) Standard 90.1-2010 (relative to Standard 90.1-2004). BECP is also responsible for the analyses leading to DOE's legislatively-mandated determinations of energy savings for ASHRAE Standard 90.1 and for analyses related to DOE code change proposals to the International Code Council's (ICC) International Energy Conservation Code (IECC).

Prior to working on BECP, Mark managed the data collection and verification efforts of the End-Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program (ELCAP), a large building end-use monitoring program in the Pacific Northwest funded by the Bonneville Power Administration.