Laramie staff propose clarifications and selective roll‑backs to residential building code after contractor outreach City staff outlined proposed code clarifications and selective changes after inviting roughly 500 contractors to submit concerns; recommendations include an optional manual dimmer mandate, clearer guidance on sprinklers vs. firewalls for small multiunit buildings, requiring smoke alarms in rooms that could become bedrooms, and a local energy‑table option to ease prescriptive R‑value requirements.

Laramie city officials are streamlining building codes to cut confusion for contractors while ensuring safety, but will it really ease the burden on local construction?

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Holland’s Home Energy 101 and contractor outreach highlighted as key education tools in CEP The Strategic Development Team praised Home Energy 101—over 650 participants—and recommended elevating contractor education and simple KPIs to measure outreach impact, while exploring business engagement and neighborhood targeting for future outreach.

Holland's Home Energy 101 program has already empowered over 650 participants, making them 12 times more likely to secure rebates—could this be the blueprint for other communities to follow?

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Lorain County awards CHIP and LSO home-repair contracts and steps up contractor outreach The Board approved three small home-repair contracts funded through program year 2023 CHIP/LSO accounts and heard a county update on an outreach campaign and free trainings to expand the pool of certified contractors for CHIP and Lead Safe work.

Lorain County is taking major steps to boost home repairs and contractor participation with new contracts and free training sessions—don’t miss out on the details!

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