Building Code Council previews split amendments to embodied‑carbon appendix, flags technical review

Aug 5, 2026

Council members agreed to split policy and technical issues in an embodied‑carbon appendix — separating a 100% product‑compliance option for full‑council policy debate and routing detailed code‑language edits to the BFRW/code‑language reviewers for technical review.

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The State Building Code Council spent the bulk of its Aug. 4 work session reviewing proposed edits to an embodied‑carbon appendix and agreed to split policy choices from technical clarifications before bringing amendments to the full council.

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