The ICC Board of Directors has created the “Sustainable Building Technology Committee,” which will be composed of individuals from multiple sectors and charged with the drafting process. The Board has received more than 100 applications and is responsible for appointing this comm. The final composition of the SBTC will be announced soon, along with several advisory committees.
The SBTC will conduct open meetings around the U.S. between July and December as it moves forward in creating a draft IgCC. The Committee’s draft will issue in Spring 2010. At that time, the Draft IgCC may be used as a tool for jurisdictions wishing to develop a code based on the ICC process. The Draft IgCC will be posted for public comment. A week of hearings to review the public comments will be conducted. The first draft will be updated to the final draft based on approved comments. The final draft will be posted for code change submittals followed by code development hearings. The Final Action Hearing vote is restricted to ICC governmental members as they will be charged with enforcing the code.
This process tracks the development of the other codes in the I-Codes series. Once a final code is created, it will be revisited every three years along with the other I-Codes, through the two-hearing process outlined above.
