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| ICC Board Approves Deletion of IBC Chapter 34 in Favor of Reference to the IEBC The Code Council Board of Directors supported the Membership's recommendation and upheld action taken at the 2012 Public Comment Hearing in Portland on Code Change G201-12 that proposed the deletion of Chapter 34 of the International Building Code (IBC) in favor of a reference to the International Existing Building Code (IEBC). The IEBC, in Chapters 4 (Prescriptive Compliance Method) and 14 (Performance Compliance Methods), includes the same provisions that are in Chapter 34 of the IBC. This code change required Board review and action since it dealt with the scope of both the IBC and the IEBC while Section 1.3 of Council Policy 28 Code Development stipulates that the Board "...shall determine the title and the general purpose and scope of each Code published by the ICC." In taking this action, the Board reviewed the hearing results for three code changes (G201, G202 and G205) considered in the 2012 Cycle, each proposing varying approaches to address the existing building provisions in the IBC versus the IEBC. At the Public Comment Hearing, G201-12 was Approved as Submitted by the ICC Membership. The Final Action on the other two was for Disapproval. The provisions of Chapters 4 and 14 of the IEBC, as a duplication of the provisions of Chapter 34 of the IBC, fall under the maintenance responsibility of the IBC — General Code Committee (see the [B] in the IEBC), which were considered in the 2012 Cycle. As such, any changes which resulted from the 2012 Cycle will be incorporated into the 2015 IEBC and the 2015 IBC will no longer include Chapter 34 entitled Existing Structures. If you have any questions, please call Mike Pfeiffer at 888-ICC-SAFE (888-422-7233) ext. 4338, or email him at mpfeiffer@iccsafe.org. |
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ICC Accepting Applications for ICC Codes and Standards Council The Code Council is currently accepting applications to fill two vacancies on the Codes and Standards Council, a single, multi-discipline council established to advise the Board of Directors on codes and standards committees' procedures, practices and other codes and standards related processes. Application deadline is Feb. 11. |
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First Public Comments Draft of ICC 802-201 (Landscape Irrigation The First Public Comments Draft of the ICC 802-201 Landscape Irrigation Sprinkler and Emitter Standard dated December 2012 is available for public comment. The ICC Consensus Committee on Landscape Irrigation Emission Devices (IS-IEDC) has held five public meetings during 2011 and 2012 to develop this first public comments draft dated December 2012. Public comments are requested on the first public comments draft dated December 2012. |
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