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Phil Consalvo is the principal at architecture firm PJCArchitecture and shared some examples of the gravity of codes.

"The example that I like to use was a 1920s gut renovation on Long Island where we had to comply to energy code," he said. "It was a challenge on the exterior wall because we had to meet a certain rating on the R-value of the insulation. We had to come up with a creative way to meet the code and not build it out to a two-foot wall. It forced us to put on creative caps."