Climate zone / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...climate zone corresponds to IECC climate zone 4B (dry). Cold climate zone Defined as: any region with between 5,400 and 9,000 heating degree days (on the 65°F basis). The Building America cold climate corresponds to the IECC climate zones 5 and 6. Very-cold climate zone Defined as: any region with between 9,000 and 12,...

...climate change." Code-built homes = the minimum allowed  This makes building for your climate zone significantly more challenging when we don’t know with any degree of accuracy what the climate and weather patterns of the future will be like. One thing we can agree on though is that since the weather is likely to be...