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MEMBER NEWS C.J. Dupre' Named Florida Building Official of the Year For his reputation for stellar customer service, Manatee County, Fla., Building Official C.J. Dupre' was selected among 477 building officials as Florida Building Official of the Year by the Building Officials Association of Florida. The distinction comes two years after Dupre' was named Building Official of the Year by the Gulf Coast Chapter. Dupre' has served as Building Official since 2008, and loves what he does for a living. "It's an honor and a privilege to serve the citizens of Manatee County as their Building Official," Dupre' said. "It's a great honor to be selected as number one among them." Continue reading story |
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ICC NEWS Code Council Seeks Nominations for 2013 Awards Nominate an individual or group whose contributions to building safety, code compliance, fire prevention, sustainability, public service or community service are exemplary. Award recipients will be honored and recognized publicly for their accomplishments during the 2013 ICC Annual Conference in Atlantic City, N.J. Continue reading story Call for Nominations to the 2013–2014 ICC Board of Directors Call for Nominations for Honorary Members Deadline Approaches 2013 Code of Honor Scholarship Application Period Closes July 12 |
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NEW RESOURCES Pocket Guide Places IFC Interps in the Palm of Your Hand The new pocketINTERPS: 2012 IFC combines hundreds of questions submitted by code users with detailed answers from ICC's code experts. A durable cover and spiral binding make it easy to use in the field or office. Continue reading story |
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TECH SERVICES cdpACCESS Is More Than Remote Voting The ICC code development process (cdp) includes submissions of code changes, collaboration and participation in hearings by building and fire officials, architects, engineers, designers, builders, the public and others with an interest in building safety. All of those actions lead to a final vote. cdpACCESS is the code development process of the future. It allows you to participate in the process from your computer or tablet, even if you cannot attend in person. Continue reading story June 27–28 | ICC Code Action Committee Meeting July 9–10 | ICC Ad Hoc Committee on Healthcare Meeting |
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CODES CORNER Significant Code Changes to the 2012 International Building Code Exits are now permitted to be arranged where they serve a portion of a story instead of requiring that all of the required exits from the story be accessible to all of the occupants. This exception recognizes that in some building arrangements an exit may serve a specific area, such as being within an individual tenant space and may not be useable by other occupants on this story. The previous requirement often resulted in designs where access was provided to every exit required from the story even though the exiting layout was such that certain exits served distinct portions of the story and those portions may have only required access to one or two exits based on the occupant load of that area. Continue reading story |
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INDUSTRY NEWS Better Building Practices Stand Alone in "Tornado Alley" Civil Engineer David Prevatt, Assistant Professor of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida, is convinced that two homes in the Featherstone Community in Moore, Okla., that survived a direct hit from an EF5 tornado are still standing because they were built stronger than most in Oklahoma and the rest of "tornado alley" — the region stretching from Texas to Iowa that accounts for roughly a fourth of all U.S. tornadoes. "Oklahoma should follow the example of Florida after Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and adopt a tougher building code to reduce damage in the future," said Prevatt. "This notion that we cannot engineer buildings economically to withstand tornado loads is a fallacy. Why should we be surprised if a house collapses if the load is four times more powerful than it was designed to withstand?" Continue reading story |
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ICC JOBTARGET U.S. Construction Unemployment Rate Lowest May Level in Five Years Construction employment increased by 7,000 last month, pushing the industry's unemployment rate down to the lowest May level in five years. The positive jobs report underscores the need to address potential shortages of skilled workers since formerly unemployed construction workers are finding jobs in other sectors, retiring or going back to school. If the industry continues to add jobs, future worker shortages could occur unless education officials rebuild skills-based, or vocational, educational programs designed to help prepare students for careers in construction and manufacturing. Addressing this need, the Code Council has a new program for high school students participating in technical training to receive an introduction to the model building codes, including code interpretation, application and administration. Continue reading story |
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