Chapter 11, Energy Efficiency Standards of the 2007 Florida Building Code (2007 FBC)

N1100.0 Scope. This code is a statewide uniform code and shall not be made more stringent or lenient by local government. The code provides for a uniform standard of energy efficiency by, at a minimum, setting forth minimum requirements for exterior envelopes and selection of heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and service water heating systems. This chapter shall apply to all new single- and two-family residential buildings and townhomes, to additions to existing residential buildings and manufactured homes, to renovations to existing residential buildings, with certain exceptions, to changes of occupancy type, to the site-installed components and features of manufactured homes at their first set-up, and to the installation or replacement of building systems and components with new products for which thermal efficiency standards are set by this code. New residential buildings, with the exception of those exempted below, and in accordance with the specific exceptions of individual sections shall be designed to comply with this chapter.

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Exempt residential buildings. Residential buildings exempt from compliance with this chapter include those listed below:
 1. Existing buildings except those considered renovated buildings, changes of occupancy type, or previously unconditioned buildings to which comfort conditioning is added.
 2. Any building that is neither heated nor cooled by a mechanical system designed to control or modify the indoor temperature and powered by electricity or fossil fuels. Such building shall not contain electrical, plumbing or mechanical systems which have been designed to accommodate the future installation of heating or cooling equipment.
 3. Any building of less than 1,000 square feet (93 m2) whose primary use is not as a principal residence and which is constructed and owned by a natural person for hunting or similar recreational purposes; however, no such person may build more than one exempt building in any 12-month period.

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