Charleston Home Builders, Home Energy Group and Ryland Homes to host three hour training on new state energy code for builders, contractors Dec. 13-14

CHARLESTON, S.C. --- Ryland Homes has announced that the Charleston Home Builders Assn. will sponsor a three-hour field training course on new state energy code requirements for builders, contractors, framers and code officials Thursday, Dec. 14 and Friday, Dec. 15 at Whitney Lake, a Ryland Homes community on Johns Island. Don McDonough, division president for Ryland Homes in the Charleston region, said the Home Energy Group is offering the three hour training course in four different sessions. Home Builder Association Members and Code Officials can register free for sessions from 9 a.m. to noon or from 1 to 4 p.m. both days. There will be a fee for non-members. The 2009 IECC energy code goes into effect Jan. 1, 2013 throughout South Carolina, McDonough said. The field training course will include instruction, course materials and live demonstrations of new code requirements in homes currently under construction at Whitney Lake, which is located off River Road and Maybank Highway.