International Code Council Caves to Special Interests, Axes Decarbonization Measures from Model Building Code

The International Code Council (ICC) announced on Wednesday night that it had finalized its new model energy code by unilaterally stripping key energy efficiency and decarbonization measures developed by stakeholder consensus. The ICC’s Board of Directors overturned the supermajority votes of its residential and commercial consensus committees, the findings of its expert staff, and the judgment of its Appeals Board in favor of unfounded and inadmissible complaints by a handful of special interests. The ICC Board made its decision after a two-hour hearing, despite three years of deliberation by its committees and three days of hearings by its Appeals Board.