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BEEC administration and enforcement structure. The agency, or the subgroup within an existing agency, responsible for overall administration and enforcement of the BEEC, must be established with budget and staffing, even if ultimately enforcement is a local matter and most likely will take place within the structure of the department in charge of enforcing the general building codes. This agency would be responsible for the development and implementation of the remaining components. BEEC compliance process with development of compliance forms and procedures, user manuals or guidebooks, compliance tools and software, as well as administrative procedures for checking compliance and for documenting, recording, and publishing compliance results. Training programs and capacity building for code officials, designers, architects and engineers, manufacturers, and suppliers. Outreach and public information programs for the building and real estate industries and the general public. Demonstration building programs in the first phase of a adopting a new BEEC. These often provide incremental funding for the additional costs of designing more energy-efficient buildings, installing more efficient equipment and materials, installing monitoring equipment, commissioning the buildings, and monitoring and evaluating the buildings during their operation. Setting a firm date for implementation (with as much lead time as necessary) and then sticking with it, so that developers, designers, contractors, manufacturers, and suppliers all know when the new rules will take effect so that they can compete fairly with each other. Evaluation of energy savings and BEEC effectiveness. For future code revisions evaluation of actual results and experiences is important. This can include formal surveys, but should also be based on issues raised by designers and other involved parties.
The described development and implementation process (see also figure 2.1) is obviously complex, quite lengthy, and costly. In some developing countries, it has been supported with funding from bilateral and multilateral development agencies; frequently, however, such funding is available only for the BEEC development phase. BEECs and the Building Industry Interaction between BEECs and the building/construction industry goes both ways. When developing the BEEC, it should be taken into account whether required materials and components are produced in sufficient numbers and quality or whether production can be changed over to those materials fairly quickly.11 Another issue to be taken into account is whether building components can be standardized easily and quickly to lower costs by promoting economies of scale and mass production and learning effects.12 In many countries, minimizing the incremental costs of building according to code is crucial in determining BEEC requirements; see the Korea example in box 2.3.