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RESNET Water Efficiency Rating Webinar

  • Wednesday, May 17, 2017
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Online Webinar
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For the past two years a group of water and energy efficiency professionals have been developing the RESNET Water Efficiency Rating (WER) Index.  RESNET is partnering with the International Code Council (ICC) to develop a national consensus standard for a Water Efficiency Rating Index (WER Index). The development of the national standard is co-chaired by:

  • Jacob Atalla of KB Home
  • Ed Osann of the Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Jonah Schein of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's WaterSense program.

The RESNET WER Index will work with water efficiency of a home in the manner that the HERS Index works for energy efficiency.

The RESNET WER Index is based on the following policies:

  • The WER Index Reference Home tracks with the reference home of the HERS Index (the water use applications that represent standard new home construction in 2006)
  • Modeling produces a WER Index that will be a quantitative assessment of the relative efficiency of two buildings (reference and rated home) that produces a numeric scale. The reference home will be assigned a WER Index Score of 100. The relative departure of the rated home from the Reference Home will be either added to or subtracted from the 100 score.  The more efficient the rated home, the lower its score.
  • The WER Index score will be based on calculations of potable water use.

The near term goal is to create a water efficiency rating index that the HERS infrastructure can readily and timely adopt – Vision is that the 165,000 new homes that are rated and issued a HERS Index annually can also be cost effectively assigned a WER Index score at an affordable cost to builders.


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