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Work group flags small-business costs, embodied carbon concerns ahead of CR-102 filing
Summary
Members and public commenters told the Building Code Council work group that proposed energy- and building-code changes could impose significant costs on small businesses and tenants, and urged staff to supply quantitative cost–benefit analysis before the council’s CR-102 filing.
Members of the Building Code Council work group on economic impact met Monday and reviewed public comments received during recent listening sessions, focusing on potential cost impacts of proposed building- and energy-code changes and gaps in the available cost–benefit analysis.
The work group, which met virtually Sept. 15, heard that opposition to the embodied-carbon proposal remains, and that at least two comments on the commercial energy code argued kitchen-electrification requirements would place “significant and prohibitive” costs on tenants and small businesses, potentially requiring infrastructure upgrades the tenant cannot complete.…
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