(July 30, 2024) Looking for an online hub that provides a single location for resources that support CALGreen compliance which emerged in the intervening code cycle and became effective as of July 1, 2024?

Need key fact sheets and tools that help building professionals understand and comply with new requirements related to Electric Vehicles and Embodied Carbon?

We’ve got you.

The Statewide Local Energy Codes team, in collaboration with the California Department of General Services and AIA California has launched CALGreenInfo.com, a new web portal.

The resource provides tools, links, educational offerings, and more. It will continue to be enhanced and shared with building and sustainability professionals across California and beyond.

AIA California is deeply grateful to David Intner, AIA, and his team at the California Energy Codes and Standards (CECS) group as well as the California Department of General Services for this valuable resource, which grew out of relationships developed by AIA California between parties preparing for the rollout of new standards for embodied carbon. In August 2023, California became the first state in America to enact standards pertaining to Embodied Carbon when the California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) voted unanimously for two building code changes to limit embodied carbon emissions in the construction, remodel, or adaptive reuse of commercial buildings larger than 100,000 sq feet and school projects over 50,000 sq ft, an advance initiated by AIA California and advanced by collaborators such as the California Department of General Services.

The new platform will enlighten and streamline these new measures and others to come, once again putting CALGreen front and center.  And it is the code that recognizes the role of design in advancing environmental stewardship. By actively updating it, it showcase the role of architects in creating a sustainable, resilient, functional, socially appropriate, and beautifully built environment.

“To see our AIA California’s involvement recognized with this launch is very exciting,” said Michael Malinowski, FAIA. “As the initiators of the very first embodied carbon code measures in the country, we of AIA CA are leading the entire profession and country forward, as well as serving our membership.”