Category Archives: IgCC

The 2012 IgCC will require the U-factor and SHGC for fenestration to be 10% lower than that of the 2012 IECC when the prescriptive energy compliance path is chosen. The prescriptive path will be limited to buildings less than 25,000 … Continue reading →

The 2012 IgCC will allow its users to achieve 1 project elective by providing a Building Service Life Plan (BSLP) for 100 years or 2 project electives for a 200 year BSLP for the building being designed. The Building Service Life … Continue reading →

There were multiple proposals considered this week to add Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provisions to the International Green Construction Code (IgCC). The only one that was approved was one that just added a definition of LCA. Proposals that required evaluation … Continue reading →

if all its parts had passed. But at this point, only 1 of the 6 parts of GG34 that have been considered and voted on by the ICC membership at the IgCC hearings so far has been passed. The other … Continue reading →

We only had 4 1/2 hours of hearings today. The ICC had other events of their Annual Business Meeting, including their Annual Banquet, that the hearings had to be fitted between. During the time we did have, however, a major … Continue reading →

The Final Action Hearings for the 2012 International Green Construction Code (IgCC) begin tomorrow (November 2, 2011). As I have posted previously, the 300+ code officials who are registered to vote during these hearings will be charged with transforming a … Continue reading →

In a couple of weeks the Final Action Hearings on the 2012 International Green Construction Code will begin. These hearings are somewhat unique in that this will be the first time that ICC Active Members (i.e. code officials) only will … Continue reading →

I am still reeling from the long, strange trip the IgCC Hearings have been. Over the course of the next week I will be preparing a detailed report on the IgCC Code Development Hearings held this past week in Dallas … Continue reading →

A life cycle assessment is an evaluation of the environmental impact of the materials used in a building “from cradle to grave”. One of the code officials at the IgCC hearings summarized it this way: The calf is born You … Continue reading →

A proposal that would permit a whole building life cycle assessment as an alternative to 55% of the material used in the building being recycled, recyclable, biobased, indigenous or used was approved for the IgCC yesterday. How does one perform … Continue reading →