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 New ICC Western Regional Office Is All about Customer ServiceExciting times are ahead as build-out has begun in Brea, California, at the new home for the International Code Council's Western Regional Office. The facility will house ICC, ICC Evaluation Service (ICC-ES) and International Accreditation Service (IAS) staff. Members, representatives of other organizations, business partners and all ICC stakeholders will benefit from the office's customer service friendliness, including new training facilities and a conference center with enhanced wireless capabilities, security and easy access to restaurants, hotels, and other amenities. ICC has had a long-standing presence in California and can trace its roots back to Long Beach, in the early 1920s. Options to expand the Whittier office were very limited. ICC is liquidating the asset and investing in a new location that is conducive to ICC's growth while offering improved efficiencies that will allow for expanded services. The new location will provide a global gateway for accreditation and product certification for the ICC subsidiaries ICC-ES and IAS. Consistent with ICC's commitment to efficiency and environmental excellence, the new facility will meet or exceed CALGreen standards. The new office will help further ICC's mission to provide the highest quality codes, standards, products and services for all concerned with the safety and performance of the built environment. ICC also has offices in Washington, D.C., Alabama and Illinois. |
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| Rick Chandler Appointed to Lead NYC Department of Buildings New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed Rick Chandler as buildings commissioner. Chandler, an assistant vice president of facilities at Hunter College, will begin work in a few weeks. Chandler will be tasked not only with ensuring that nearly one million buildings are safe and up to code, but also with changing the culture of the buildings department. "It has become more consumer friendly, more customer friendly," de Blasio said during a press conference announcing the new officials at City Hall. "It has to become immensely more efficient." He said the buildings department will help lead the effort to reduce unnecessary fines across city agencies. Chandler will focus on addressing the city's homelessness problem and getting pre-K sites up to code under the mayor's expanded pre-K plan. Chandler previously worked as an assistant commissioner at the Department of Homeless Services and as a borough commissioner for the buildings department. |
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| Nebraska's Energy Code Compliance for Commercial Buildings at 83 Percent In June, the Nebraska Energy Office completed a statewide check of commercial building code compliance with the Nebraska Energy Code, the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code, and found the compliance rate average for Nebraska was 83 percent. Two counties that represented more than half the buildings in the study rated 87 and 88 percent compliance. Under federal legislation, states are required to achieve 90 percent energy code compliance by 2017. "We were very pleased the study showed compliance rates to be more than eighty percent," said Ginger Willson, Director of the Nebraska Energy Office. "The Energy Office has focused energy code trainings to builders and others before the code was adopted in 2011. This shows the trainings have paid off." |
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| Dan Wilkerson Appointed Huntsville, Ala., Fire Marshal Huntsville Fire and Rescue recently announced that Dan Wilkerson will serve as the city of Huntsville's new fire marshal. Wilkerson previously served as a fire investigations officer. He has been with Huntsville Fire and Rescue since June 2001. Wilkerson replaces Huntsville Fire Marshal Joe L. Jordan, who retired on March 1 after almost 40 years of service. As the Huntsville fire marshal, Wilkerson will oversee the Bureau of Fire Prevention, which inspects buildings and enforces fire safety codes, reviews building construction plans for fire code compliance and investigates fires to determine the cause of fires. "Dan Wilkerson has a long history of serving Huntsville," said Huntsville Fire Chief Howard McFarlen. "He is a strong leader, and we are excited to see what he will bring to the table." |
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| Salina, Kan., Names James M. Brown Building Official James M. Brown was appointed as the city of Salina's building official. Brown now works as the building official for Prairie Village and has been employed as a building official and building inspector by various communities since 1998. Prior to that, he worked as a construction superintendent in the Texas region. Brown is a certified building official, with additional International Code certifications including LEED Green associate, commercial building inspector and building inspector. He has experience in private building construction, commercial plans review, building inspections, fire safety processes, property maintenance code and regulatory compliance, said Gary Hobbie, director of community and development services. Brown will oversee the building inspection department and assist with commercial plan reviews. |
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