The International Green Construction Code™

Could Transform the Development, Operation and Sale of Real Estate

In March 2012, the International Code Counsel — America’s foremost building code writing body — is scheduled to release the International Green Construction Code™ (IGCC). If released in its current form, the IGCC will provide state and local governments, for the first time, with a “model code” to require new and existing commercial buildings to reduce their energy usage and carbon footprints and to minimize the adverse impacts that building construction and operations have on the environment. In April, 2011, Maryland became the first state to authorize adoption of the IGCC by local governments. More state and local governments can be expected to follow Maryland’s lead given the IGCC’s integration with the other ICC codes that state and local governments already trust and have in place and the ability of local officials to “customize” its provisions to a jurisdiction’s particular climate— both environmental and political. read more with document reader embedded>>>