CNMI Energy Director Thelma B. Inos said Hawaii’s Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism has taken the lead to develop a new enhanced building code for the state, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Marianas which can be shared with other islands in the region.
“The code will address minimum provisions and standards that will result in a more healthy local economy that is less dependent on imported oil; cleaner air from reduced emissions; safe buildings that are visually, thermally and acoustically comfortable,” she said in a letter to lawmakers.
Her office is in charge of promulgating the building energy code for the CNMI.
She said Charles Eley of the Architectural Energy Corp. of California will facilitate a workshop, Thursday, on Saipan about the project.
Majority of government offices in the CNMI are located in buildings built before or shortly after World War II.
