Workplan: Go/No-Go Decision Points
DOE INSTRUCTIONS
The applicant should provide a summary of project-wide Go/No-Go decision points at appropriate points in the Workplan. At a minimum, each project must have at least one project-wide Go/No-Go decision point for each budget period of the project. The applicant should also provide the specific technical and Community Benefits Plan criteria to be used to evaluate the project at the Go/No-Go decision point. The summary provided should be consistent with the SOPO. Go/No-Go decision points are considered “SMART” and can fulfill the requirement for an annual SMART milestone.
3.1: Workplan: Go/No-Go Decision Points
Architecture 2030 Template Language & Guidance
For already adopted codes, the primary go/no-go decision is based on whether codes adopted with amendments pass the equivalency methodology. If amended codes are not equivalent, the project cannot move forward.
Jurisdiction Scenarios 1 and 2:
The first go/no go decision will come when IECC and/or Appendix CC is adopted. Should adoption be stalled or abandoned, then subsequent steps would obviously be abandoned.
Adoption is expected to include an implementation date, often six months to a year after adoption. Immediately following adoption but before the implementation date:
- Training materials would be developed.
- The website would be developed and deployed.
- Staff would be trained and if necessary additional staff would be hired. In some cases, an outside contractor would be hired in lieu of adding staff.
Training programs would be offered to the building community after the previous steps but before the implementation date. Training opportunities would continue after the implementation date.
On the implementation date, all new buildings would be required to comply with Appendix CC Jurisdiction Scenario 1) and IECC 2021 (Jurisdiction Scenario 2).
Monitoring of compliance would begin. [Full compliance can’t be assessed until the buildings are completed and operational, one to three years after the implementation date.]
Jurisdiction Scenario 3:
The first go/no go decision will come when the jurisdiction commits to implementing a renewable energy standard and, if not already in place, a disclosure/benchmarking program. [Applicants for IRA funding should have already made this commitment, which can be documented with the attachment of a resolution from the appropriate government body. The details of the program can be worked out with IRA funding.]
Adoption is expected to include an implementation date, often six months to a year after adoption. The following milestones will be completed prior to the implementation date:
- Identification of covered buildings based on size and use.
- Schedule for implementation based on size and use, e.g., buildings greater than 50,000 ft2 are first with smaller buildings in future years.
- Implementation of the disclosure/benchmarking program.
- Training materials would be developed.
- The website would be developed and deployed.
- Staff would be trained and if necessary additional staff would be hired. In some cases, an outside contractor would be hired in lieu of adding staff.
Training programs would be offered to the building community prior to and following the implementation date.