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At a meeting of the National Fenestration Rating Council’s (NFRC) Board of Directors, Feb. 1-3, 2023, the board appointed its new Executive Committee and welcomed three new members to NFRC’s Board.
Updated Mar 01, 2021 Biden Administration Wades Into Major Fight Over Green Building Codes The Energy Department wants the nonprofit that sets model codes to justify its industry-backed bid to block cities from adopting more energy-efficient rules. David J. Phillip/AP The Biden administration has waded into a quiet but extremely consequential fight over building codes that are supposed to save energy, urging the nonprofit in charge of writing those guidelines to halt a policy change that would limit input from local governments and give the construction and gas industries more power. In a ...
Updated Mar 01, 2021 Cities Voted For Green Building Codes. Now Developers Want To End Voting. Powerful lobbying groups are fighting to block cities from having a final say over building codes that could cut pollution and make energy bills cheaper. By Alexander C. Kaufman Star Tribune via Getty Images via Getty Images A 280-unit apartment building under construction in Minneapolis in 2017. Nearly three-quarters of Minneapolis’ emissions came from buildings. Kim Havey had a problem. Minneapolis was generating more and more of its electricity from renewables, dropping climate-warming polluti...