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Update of Washington’s Wildfire Building Code Gets Ditched

State officials scrapped new wildfire protection rules for homes and other buildings on March 15th, the day the suite of building codes was set to take effect. The state Building Code Council voted to remove Washington’s new wildland urban interface codes, following Gov. Jay Inslee’s signing of a bill that limits which of the new rules can go into effect and when.

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2024-03-22T11:32:13-04:00March 22, 2024|Codes & Standards News|

Building Energy Code Revamps Can Get Another $90 Million from DOE

The Department of Energy announced March 4th that it is making $90 million available to help states and localities adopt and implement building energy codes, which set energy efficiency standards for new buildings, additions, and major renovations. This is the second tranche out of a total of $225 million designated by the 2021 infrastructure law for building energy code modernization.

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2024-03-08T10:30:34-05:00March 8, 2024|Codes & Standards News|

Virginia is First State to Adopt ICC/MBI Offsite Construction Standards

Virginia recently became the first state to adopt International Code Council/Modular Building Institute off-site construction standards. The ICC/MBI Standard 1200-2021: Standard for Off-Site Construction: Planning, Design, Fabrication, and Assembly and ICC/MBI Standard 1205-2021: Standard for Off-Site Construction: Inspection and Regulatory Compliance goes into effect on January 18, 2024.

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2024-01-25T11:05:00-05:00January 25, 2024|Codes & Standards News|

New Year’s Day Earthquake Sparks Interest in Japan’s Seismic Building Codes

Building resilience is at the forefront of the conversation surrounding Japan’s recent 7.5 magnitude New Year’s Day earthquake on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture. The minimal loss of life caught the attention of the seismology community because Japan has innovated data capture systems and focused on resilient building design.

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2024-01-18T11:24:43-05:00January 18, 2024|Codes & Standards News|

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $530 Million for Building Energy Efficiency and Resilience to Cut Consumer Costs

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $530 million in technical assistance competitive grants available for the adoption and implementation of the latest model energy codes, zero energy codes, building performance standards, and innovative codes that achieve equivalent energy savings to the latest model and zero energy codes.

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2023-12-21T11:04:35-05:00December 21, 2023|Codes & Standards News|

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