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I work in engineering producing ‘construction’ drawings to obtain city permits for construction. The International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) dictates construction ‘standards’ for all new construction throughout the continental US and also applies to remodels of existing buildings. The standards that this code forces adherence to imposes extraordinary costs that are all but exclusionary for small business start-ups.

Intentional? Damn right it is! Inspired by and to the benefit of the industrial complex. The codes get more constrictive and costly with every code update.

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Oh, and if you want an engineering degree for the authority to produce said documents plan on spending tens of thousands of dollars for the privaledge and spending more to keep your ‘license’ up to date. I am not an engineer BTW.

Also, I spent $20 on a pair of clippers about 10 years ago and have cut my own hair ever since. Figured I have saved about $2600 so far figuring $10 every 2 weeks for a haircut not including gas and time to go the barbershop.

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... (IECC) dictates construction ‘standards’ for all new construction throughout the continental US and also applies to remodels of existing buildings.
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Never heard of it, but it sounds like just another of the ridiculous United Nations “dictates” that they push on everyone.

WHY is the US still following such stupid crap coming out of the UN?

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I recently nixed a remodel on my business because of all that nonsense being imposed by the city. Almost worse than the tree/parking spot ratio crap.