Raleigh, N.C. – A subcommittee of North Carolina’s Building Codes Commission is set to recommend watered down energy efficiency improvements to the residential building codes.
The improvements were part of a package developed as part of a grant from the Bush administration’s energy department. Since then, Governor Perdue promised they would be enacted before 2017. She made the promise in order to get nearly $76 million from the stimulus bill for energy projects.
The improvements would increase the requirements on builders for things like insulation, windows, framing and more.
Builders convinced the subcommittee to lessen the regulations by claiming their increased costs would threaten to put them out of business.