For this week’s Guest Post Friday, we welcome a couple of authors.  Gary Klein has been intimately involved in energy efficiency and renewable energy since 1973.  His firm, Affiliated International Management LLC, provides consulting on sustainability.  Craig Conner has been involved with energy efficient buildings since 1976.  He is active in the development of energy and green related building codes.

We, along with several code enforcement staff and colleagues from around the country, proposed changes to the IGCC that would cut its size of the new green code by 2/3. Why revise the IGCC so radically?  Because we want green to actually happen.  The IGCC needs to be simple, understandable, usable, useful and enforceable.

As a society, we celebrate adopting something with Green or Sustainable in the tile.  But our goal is not titles; it is impact on buildings, on people, on the environment.  We should celebrate the greening of buildings.  So how is the implementation of the IGCC doing?  Poorly.
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