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NORTH CAROLINA ENERGY<br />
CODE LEGISLATION<br />
REFLECTS TREND<br />
Recently introduced legislation in the<br />
North Carolina General Assembly<br />
would allow for an alternate path for<br />
energy-conservation code compliance<br />
for alterations and additions to<br />
commercial buildings. This alternative<br />
would allow the use of the 2009<br />
North Carolina Energy Conservation<br />
Code, in lieu of the current 2012 edition,<br />
and would apply to buildings<br />
that received a certificate of occupancy<br />
prior to January 1, 2012. The<br />
legislation reflects concerns that<br />
the imposition of the much more<br />
stringent 2012 code requirements<br />
can be prohibitively expensive for<br />
projects in many existing buildings—<br />
sentiments that have been echoed<br />
in a number of major jurisdictions<br />
throughout the country. This also<br />
parallels concerns expressed by<br />
numerous municipalities and states<br />
in the development of national<br />
model energy codes by the International<br />
Code Council (the International<br />
Energy Conservation Code<br />
[IECC]) and ASHRAE (Standard<br />
90.1) that these codes increasingly<br />
represent a set of “stretch” requirements<br />
that are more akin to what is<br />
being considered for green building<br />
and other above-code programs.<br />
an online resource to assist its local<br />
associations and members in becoming<br />
active in the state and local code-adoption<br />
process—the Codes Development<br />
and Adoption Toolkit, which is available<br />
at www.boma.org/CodesToolkit.<br />
The toolkit includes a wealth of materials<br />
to assist with building professionals’<br />
efforts to effectively represent the<br />
interests of the commercial real estate<br />
industry in their specific areas, including<br />
information on understanding<br />
the adoption process, how to organize<br />
efforts, a list of key code officials in<br />
the area and suggested amendments<br />
to deal with problem areas in the new<br />
codes. Publications outlining the major<br />
changes in the 2012 and 2015 codes<br />
also are available from ICC at<br />
shop.iccsafe.org.<br />
For any questions, please contact<br />
BOMA International’s Director of<br />
Codes and Standards Kevin Fry at<br />
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STATE AND LOCAL<br />
ADOPTION OF 2015<br />
ICC CODES<br />
A number of municipalities and states<br />
have begun the process of adopting<br />
the latest edition of the International<br />
Codes, the 2015 family of ICC<br />
model codes. While some jurisdictions<br />
adopted the 2012 codes, most<br />
currently utilize the 2009 editions,<br />
so consideration of the 2015 editions<br />
will involve changes spanning<br />
two code-development cycles<br />
in most areas. Virtually all state and<br />
local adoption procedures incorporate<br />
modifications to the model<br />
codes through an adoption process<br />
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BOMA MAGAZINE 17
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