Sustainability advocates are censuring the International Code Council after the ICC’s board of directors removed mandatory provisions relating to building decarbonization readiness from its draft 2024 International Energy Conservation Code, and placed them in the optional appendix. The board action on March 18, motivated by appeals and taken against the recommendations of ICC’s own board of appeals and staff, finalized the new code—giving objectors no recourse.
Environmental and other groups charge that the board caved to special interests and, in doing so, compromised the council's reputation as a model code developer.