Andre Shashaty, Editor
ashashaty@hanleywood.com

Wearing of the green. Everyone is Irish at this time of year, but is everyone also green? It’s much more than a rhetorical question. Local governments have recognized the benefits of becoming more green, in the environmental sense of the word. Some of them are moving rapidly to require builders to reduce the environmental impact and energy consumption of their structures. That could easily lead to a plethora of conflicting requirements from town to town and state to state. But fortunately, the National Association of Home Builders and the International Code Council are about to come out with a model green building code that we hope will be adopted by local building code authorities. Read about it in the next issue of AFT, and if you have any pull with your local building inspector, make sure they know about it.