August 3, 2007 — The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is taking the first steps to encourage the insertion of “green” requirements into model building codes. The action comes as the AIA concludes its first-ever Green Codes Summit on July 12, to which it invited BOMA International to sit in as a guest.
The AIA believes that the best way to advance sustainability in the built environment is to place requirements for such into the model building codes of the International Code Council (ICC). The ICC co-sponsored the summit.
BOMA encouraged AIA to consider that code officials need to be educated on green code proposals and that these same officials must be educated on how to enforce green code requirements. BOMA also noted that the code adoption process is already almost overwhelmed in each code development cycle due to the large and growing number of code proposals that require action on them.
