Robert Glowinski, president and CEO of the American Wood Council (AWC), issued a statement following Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s signing of HB 777, which directs the state Department of Community Affairs (DCA) and its State Codes Advisory Committee to look at and evaluate the International Code Council’s (ICC) 2021 tall mass timber building code changes […]

Energy savings are on the minds of many in the U.S. Government right now, if the bills being introduced are any indication. Earlier in the week Senators Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) proposed the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act. The bill, referred to as the Shaheen-Portman Energy Bill, “will spur the use […]