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Committee debates technical specifics and emergency-language concerns in embodied carbon bill
Summary
The legislative committee discussed an embodied carbon bill that would direct work on an embodied-carbon appendix for the International Building Code (IBC); members raised concerns that the bill contains technical specifics that could limit flexibility in emergency rulemaking and might be premature relative to ongoing technical work.
On Feb. 20, 2025 the State Building Code Council Legislative Committee examined a bill directing embodied-carbon work for the building code, focusing on whether the proposed statutory language ties the council and its technical groups to detailed, enforceable standards.
Dustin, a staff presenter, summarized the bill changes and said section 7 of the substitute removes a bespoke membership list and instead points to an existing technical work group established in RCW 39.116.050 and to the International Building Code (IBC) tag. "This change here though, identifies an existing technical work group, established in RCW 39.116.050," he said. Dustin also…
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