I recently came back from the first meeting of the development team for the International Green Construction Code (IgCC) Sustainable Building Technology Committee (SBTC) (they need a new, shorter name ...

More jurisdictions are utilizing the new International Green Construction Code as a tool to address sustainable construction for new and existing buildings. Fort Collins, Colo., and Kayenta Township, ...

The U.S. Green Building Council has reaffirmed its commitment to the development of Standard 189.1 P, which will be America's first National Standard developed to be used as a green building code when ...

WASHINGTON - Most presentations on sustainable building design do not begin with a meditation on early human technology, replete with references to Shakespeare. But, then again, most senior executives ...

On Jan. 1, the California Green Building Standard Code (Cal Green) became mandatory for all new construction. “Cal Green” is the nation’s first mandatory statewide code for “green” construction to ...

Others feel the state's change from its own code to the 2009 IECC could have been worse as far as energy efficiency standards are concerned. The IECC 2009 is a considerable improvement over the IECC ...

Future developments in Scottsdale will now have to follow the city’s environmentally-friendly “green building code,” a set of construction rules that are expected to cut a fifth of each new building’s ...

DENVER (AP) — Some homeowners recovering from Colorado’s most destructive wildfire in history, which decimated entire neighborhoods near Denver late last year, say they could end up paying tens of ...

The occupants of City Hall have rarely been shy about trying to leapfrog San Francisco into a leadership role on major issues, and Mayor Gavin Newsom is squarely in that tradition. His latest move is ...

Tempe has unanimously adopted new environmentally friendly building rules after spending nearly a decade putting together the policy, a move that officials hope will reduce carbon emissions and bring ...

It’s the merging of more environmentally-friendly building and technology somewhere in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell wants the state legislature to look into enacting building codes that ...