What’s New in the 2025 NYS Energy Code: Updates, Impacts and Compliance Requirements
Join SOCOTEC's expert-led webinar on the 2025 NYS Energy Code: comprehensive analysis of regulatory updates, industry-wide impacts, and strategic compliance implementation.
In New York's evolving regulatory landscape, building projects face increasingly stringent energy performance requirements that directly impact project feasibility, operational costs, and long-term sustainability goals. Yet many design and development professionals remain uncertain about the specific technical requirements and compliance strategies necessary to navigate the 2025 NYS Energy Code successfully.
This comprehensive presentation examines the transformative updates within the 2025 New York State Energy Code and their profound implications for building design, construction methodology, and operational performance. Through detailed regulatory analysis and practical compliance strategies, attendees will gain clarity on critical changes affecting building envelope systems and MEP infrastructure—including enhanced insulation standards, tightened air leakage thresholds, advanced glazing specifications, thermal bridging mitigation requirements, and elevated system efficiency benchmarks. The session provides side-by-side comparison of previous code provisions versus new requirements, enabling professionals to understand precisely how their design approaches must evolve to achieve compliance and optimize energy performance from project inception through long-term operation.
Objectives
What You'll Learn
- Comprehensive Regulatory Update Analysis: Examine the specific technical changes affecting building envelope and MEP system performance, including enhanced insulation R-values, reduced air leakage allowances, improved glazing U-factors and SHGC ratings, thermal bridging mitigation strategies, and elevated HVAC/lighting system efficiency requirements.
- Code Comparison and Evolution: Understand the critical differences between the previous code provisions and the 2025 requirements through detailed side-by-side comparisons that highlight the magnitude and practical implications of regulatory changes.
- Compliance Strategy Development: Explore how these regulatory updates will fundamentally shape energy code compliance pathways, documentation requirements, and verification protocols for projects moving forward in the New York market.
- NYC vs. NYS Requirements: Learn the known distinctions between New York City's emerging energy code requirements and the statewide provisions, including timeline differences, technical specification variations, and jurisdiction-specific compliance considerations.
- Practical Implementation Guidance: Discover proven strategies for integrating new code requirements into design workflows, construction documentation, and quality assurance processes to ensure first-time compliance success.
- Comprehensive Regulatory Update Analysis: Examine the specific technical changes affecting building envelope and MEP system performance, including enhanced insulation R-values, reduced air leakage allowances, improved glazing U-factors and SHGC ratings, thermal bridging mitigation strategies, and elevated HVAC/lighting system efficiency requirements.
- Code Comparison and Evolution: Understand the critical differences between the previous code provisions and the 2025 requirements through detailed side-by-side comparisons that highlight the magnitude and practical implications of regulatory changes.
- Compliance Strategy Development: Explore how these regulatory updates will fundamentally shape energy code compliance pathways, documentation requirements, and verification protocols for projects moving forward in the New York market.
- NYC vs. NYS Requirements: Learn the known distinctions between New York City's emerging energy code requirements and the statewide provisions, including timeline differences, technical specification variations, and jurisdiction-specific compliance considerations.
- Practical Implementation Guidance: Discover proven strategies for integrating new code requirements into design workflows, construction documentation, and quality assurance processes to ensure first-time compliance success.
Who Benefits
- Architects and architectural design professionals
- Real estate developers and development firms
- Building owners and facility managers
- MEP engineers and energy consultants
- General contractors and construction managers
- Code compliance specialists and plan reviewers
- Sustainability professionals and LEED practitioners
- Project managers overseeing New York building projects
Key Takeaways
- Gain clarity on the key recent updates affecting envelope and MEP system performance, such as insulation, air leakage, glazing, thermal bridging, and system efficiency requirements.
- Explore how the new code requirements compare to the previous version.
- Understand how these changes will shape energy code compliance moving forward.
- Learn what's known about the new NYC energy code requirements, and how they differ from NYS.
About the Speaker
Anthony Thompson, Associate – Energy & Sustainability
Anthony Thompson serves as Associate of Energy & Sustainability at SOCOTEC, applying advanced technical expertise in energy modeling, compliance analysis, and comprehensive project management. He utilizes sophisticated energy modeling software to develop detailed building analyses, produces thorough technical reports, and provides essential cross-functional support to multidisciplinary project teams throughout the complete project lifecycle.
Prior to joining SOCOTEC, Mr. Thompson led mechanical system designs for diverse building types including residential campuses, medical facilities, laboratories, and higher education institutions, coordinating with MEP teams, managing budgets, and delivering strategic recommendations to development clients.
Mr. Thompson brings exceptional sustainability expertise, including creating energy models and LEED reports, integrating energy conservation measures, designing millions of square feet of Zero Net Energy campuses, managing photovoltaic and energy storage systems, optimizing geothermal configurations, and quantifying operational cost savings that align sustainability objectives with project feasibility and long-term operational success.
Deanna Quickle, Senior Project Manager – Energy & Sustainability
Deanna Quickle serves as Senior Project Manager within SOCOTEC's Energy & Sustainability practice, bringing over a decade of specialized expertise in building envelope performance and energy code compliance. Since joining SOCOTEC in 2014, she has developed comprehensive proficiency in both Wall/New Construction and Energy departments.
Since 2016, Ms. Quickle has focused exclusively on building envelope systems and energy performance, specializing in Energy Code compliance strategies, NYC Ultra Low Energy Building requirements, thermal bridging reduction, moisture condensation prevention, and high-thermal integrity envelope design. Her deep technical knowledge of Energy Code provisions and sustained collaborative relationships with NYC Department of Buildings examiners enable her to provide practical guidance throughout all project phases—from design review through final approvals.
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