Building Engineering Committee (BEC)

The BEC addresses business issues of member firms in the mechanical, electrical, structural, and other building-related disciplines. BEC members partner with the Division of Capital Asset Management (DCAM), the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA), the University of Massachusetts Building Authority, the State College Building Authority, the Board of Building Regulations and Standards and other agencies working on public procurement and project delivery for vertical design and construction.

Resource Materials

(newest at the top)

September 23, 2026: MassSave Program Administrators: Introduction to the Existing Building Commissioning (EBCx) Offering. PDF of Presentation

May 20, 2026: Office of Public Safety & Inspections: Briefing on the requirements of Chapter 1 of 780 CMR – Massachusetts State Building Code. PDF of Presentation

March 18, 2026: Department of Energy Resources: Briefing on Massachusetts’ Stretch and Specialized Building Codes. PDF of Presentation

February 24, 2026: MassSave Program Administrators: Briefing on MassSave program offering. PDF of Presentation 

January 21, 2026: Carleton Jones, Executive Director of the Public Facilities Department, City of Boston: Briefed the committee on the department’s priorities and plans. PDF of Presentation 

November 18, 2025: Adam Baacke, Commissioner, Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM): Financing Higher Education Capital Projects and Update on BRIGHT Act: PDF of Presentation

October 21, 2025:  Simone Early, Executive Director, Designer Selection Board: Elements of a Successful Application for Public Building Projects reviewed by DSB: PDF of Presentation

September 17, 2025:  Harshika Bisht, Senior Sustainable Design Reviewer, Boston Planning & Development Agency, City of Boston & John Dalzell, Senior Architect for Sustainable Development, Boston Planning Department.  Presentation on Article 37 – Green Building & Net Zero Carbon: PDF of Presentation

June 18, 2025:  Simone Early, Executive Director of the Designer Selection Board shared insights with ACEC/MA BEC members about priorities for the Designer Selection Board.  PDF of Presentation

April 25, 2025: Design Community Working Group issues report of recommendations: On March 1, 2024, the Public Construction Project Advisory Council issued a Report pursuant to Executive
Order 630. The Public Construction Project Advisory Council Report identified barriers to the participation of small, emerging, and diverse Massachusetts businesses within the existing procurement and bidding systems for public construction projects as well as a menu of recommended options to reduce or eliminate these barriers. The report recommended that a Design Community Working Group be formed to further review issues, barriers and solutions of access and opportunity related specifically to the Designers who work on public building projects. This report furthers the understanding and recommendations for the Design Community.    PDF of Report

March 19, 2025: 10th Edition MA Building Code Changes and Regulatory Updates from  Paul Moan, P.E. | Principal – Sr. Project Manager, Code Red Consultants, LLC   PDF of PPT

From DOER in February 2025 and Building Officials: Updated Map of Stretch and Specialized code communities
The Green Communities Division maintains a map and table illustrating which towns and cities have adopted the Stretch energy code. This map is now updated to show both Stretch code adoption and Specialized opt-in code communities. The map is hosted on the Green Communities building code webpage
Or download a PDF of the map and table directly 

December 8, 2023: Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters issues a new version of the 248 CMR 10.00: Uniform State Plumbing Code, effective 12/08/2023.

This is a redline markup of 248 CMR 10.00.

January 24, 2023: MA Stretch Code Update & New Specialized Code, DOER Overview with Paul Ormond

PDF of PPT   March 25, 2022: EO594: Leading By Example: Decarbonizing and Minimizing Environmental Impacts of State Government, Eric Friedman, Director, Leading by Example Program, MA Dept. of Energy Resources PDF of PPT Presentation   April 23,2021 Member Briefing with DCAMM with Hope Davis, Deputy Commissioner for DCAMM’s Office of Facilities Management and Maintenance (OFMM) and Susan Ruch, Director of Environmental Services PDF of PPT Presentation   From our November 20 and 23, 2020 Member Briefings on the Designer Selection Board (DSB) Autocene system, which ACEC/MA co-hosted with AIA MA:

• PDF of PPT Presentation on Autocene Updates
• Recording of 11/20/2020 Briefing
• Recording of 11/23/2020
• Note: We covered the same material in both the 11/20 and 11/23 sessions, but some of the questions were different.

From our August 2020 Meeting on UV-C and other HVAC technologies:

• ASHRAE Reopening Schools and Unversities C19 Guidance
• Reopening Massachusetts: May 18, 2020 from the Reopening Advisory Board
• Initial Fall School Reopening Guidance from Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, June 25, 2020
• IES 2020 Committee Report: Germicidal Ultraviolet (GUV) – Frequently Asked Questions
• ASHRAE Position Document on Infectious Aerosols, April 14, 2020
• Recording of August 10, 2020 ACEC/MA Building Engineering Committee Zoom: UV-C in Air Handling Design for Buildings
• Thank you to ACEC/MA Member Firm Arora for sharing their White Paper on disease mitigation and air quality: Improvements in Indoor Air Quality for Disease Mitigation by Anastacia Michigan, EIT, with contributions by David Marsh, PE and Bradford White, PE. https://www.aroraengineers.com/improvements-in-indoor-air-quality-for-disease-mitigation/  for more information.

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DCAMM/DSB PDF of Presentation to ACEC/MA BEC: New Diversity Language & New Autocene Application: 6/23/2020   Autocene Briefing: 2/7/2020   Noise Compliance Basics: 1/17/2020   DCAMM Presentation ACEC/MA Member Briefing 9/8/2017   UMass Building Authority Presentation 12/4/2015   Massachusetts Designer Selection Board Home Page for DSB   Massachusetts Designer Selection Board (DSB)  Annual Report 2013   DCAM Presentation to ACEC/MA and AIA/MA on MBE-WBE Combined Goals 1/10/2012   Revised MBE/WBE Goals for Certain State Funded Building Projects Distributed at 12/5/2011 Construction Law Working Group Meeting.

Co-chair:

Michael Camoscio, PE, LEED AP BD+C

Senior Associate | Mechanical Engineering Director
STV
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Co-chair:

Emily Roberts, IntPE(UK) 

Associate Principal | Boston Office Leader
Arup
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(857) 329-1139

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