Efficiency advocates hope concessions and clarifications on what builders say are the biggest-ticket items in the proposed code will produce compromise.
North Carolina’s homebuilding industry has spent decades cultivating political influence in a state whose steady population growth is reflected in new residential developments that have spread like kudzu across former
There's a battle in Raleigh over energy efficiency standards and building codes that has implications for both North Carolina's climate change efforts and the short- and long-term costs of homeownership.