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SBCC legislative committee reviews embodied-carbon bills and potential workload for performance-based codes
Summary
The State Building Code Council legislative committee reviewed bill tracking for embodied-carbon reductions and performance-based building code proposals, discussed timing for testimony and drafting a letter to the full council, and flagged staffing and process impacts; no formal SBCC position was taken.
Members of the State Building Code Council (SBCC) legislative committee discussed a cluster of bills related to embodied-carbon limits and new performance-based code requirements during their Jan. 15 meeting, but the committee did not adopt a formal position and focused on next steps for informing the full council.
Dustin, staff for the legislative committee, opened the update with the committee’s week-two bill tracking and said the online tracker shows many items moved back to their house and committee of origin. "The interface has changed just a little bit on our Zoom," Dustin said, before summarizing the tracker and noting the committee is "kind of quagmired on the building codes and embodied carbon bills." He flagged bills 1458 and 2273 as…
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