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On the other hand, currently cities and municipalities end up including the development cost in their taxes anyway, because the main consumer of such codes (and
by tathougies 8y ago
On the other hand, currently cities and municipalities end up including the development cost in their taxes anyway, because the main consumer of such codes (and thus ICCs main customers) are cities, municipalities, and states. Contractors are another major consumer I'd guess and the average individual is paying for those too. So actually paying for it in taxes would likely lower both taxes as well as construction costs, because it's likely ICC also compensates its employees really well.
- Old_Thrashbarg 8y agoExactly. The cost is still passed on to the citizens, probably even more so. In addition, every year in the US, $4B is wasted in construction rework which is really dumb. One of the things we're trying to do at UpCodes is to create a checker for 3D building models to help catch some of these errors upstream. If we didn't have the fundraising to fight back against the lawsuit, we'd never have gotten to work on this. BTW, it's not only government officials and industry people who have to read these laws, it's also all homeowners doing any kind of renovation or DIY project.