California Adopts New Green Building Code

The California Building Standards Commission has taken the opportunity, along with other state agencies, to develop green building standards that will establish California as a leader in the efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from structures.

The code as adopted includes mandatory features with a delayed effective date for housing, and voluntary standards for hospitals and other non-residential occupancies. (Those few measures shown as "required" in the Commission's Application Matrix refer to regulations or statutes currently in place.) The Commission will continue to work with state agencies and the many stakeholders as we develop a comprehensive set of mandatory provisions in the 2010 edition of the California Green Building Standards Code.

For more information and to view the code, please visit California's Green Building Code