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We're working with @metroabundance.bsky.social to collect cost drivers in California building codes and standards above and beyond national model codes/standards. See here for more – please circulate among architects, engineers, etc. in the state! admin.centerforbuilding.org/wp-content/u...

Are you not looking at energy codes? Isn't that where California really stands out?

We’re interested in hearing about it but tbd if we touch it for now (ditto structural and WUI)

Nothing amps up my support for a carbon tax like extreme energy efficiency requirements in one of the most temperate climates in the world that builds ~no housing

What do you think of the state’s cost/benefit analyses, which conclude that the additional capital cost of complying with California’s Energy Code is more than offset by the reduction in operating costs? I haven’t reviewed them, but perhaps you have? www.energy.ca.gov/news/2024-09...

Do they do a whole analysis? From what I’m seeing it looks like they tallied benefits but not costs

Washington does both though: bsky.app/profile/will...

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California law specifically requires that cost/benefit analyses be conducted for the energy code: "The CEC is required to adopt or revise standards that shall be cost-effective when taken in their entirety and when amortized over the economic life of the structure compared with historic practice.