Nickson Recipient of Affiliate Award

Recipient has served on several technical standards writing committees, and organizes the annual Bob Fowler Motorcycle Ride.

Left to right: International Code Council CEO Rick Weiland, Board Immediate Past President Jimmy Brothers, ICC Affiliate Award recipient Ron Nickson, and Board Member and Awards Committee Chairman Gregori Anderson.   The ICC Affiliate Award is presented to a building industry professional who consistently demonstrates the qualities of integrity, professionalism and dedication through service to the profession, and whose personal standards represent the spirit of public service to the development of codes and standards in the interest of public safety. During his more than 30 years in the industry, Nickson has served on several technical standards writing committees, and organizes the annual Bob Fowler Motorcycle Ride, which marked its eighth anniversary this year and donated all proceeds to the ICC Foundation's Code of Honor Scholarship Program. "In my job I work with several code development organizations, and some of the other organizations are a little frustrating in a sense because, if you're not a member of a committee you have a difficult time finding out what's going on," Nickson said. "That's not true with the ICC process. Any person that wants to submit a code change, any person that wants to can get a copy of all those comments and proposals, and any person that wants can come and testify for and against that code change can do so. "But the most important part of the entire process is the final vote that's taken by the Code Official. That doesn't happen anywhere else," Nickson continued. "That's the guy that's in the field that has to live with what happens and what goes into the code."