STEPHEN TURNER INC. LEADS CODE TRAINING AND URI BUILDING TOUR

Stephen Turner Inc. provided training on changes in the 2016 RI Energy Conservation Code and offered a tour of the just-completed 134,600 square foot URI chemistry building. The tour was part of the Rhode Island Code Compliance Enhancement Initiative, and with support from National Grid and CLEAResult, Approximately fifty people attended the training, which focused on building envelope and lighting and lighting controls, the areas of least compliance in Rhode Island. The tour highlighted the URI project team’s solutions to those issues, including daylighting strategies and wall assembly types, as well as the creative HVAC solutions required by a laboratory building of this size.