Background – Reviewing the ICC Performance Code for Buildings and Facilities (ICCPC)
The International Code Council is undertaking a review of the ICC Performance Code for Buildings and Facilities (ICCPC), a code...
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Revisiting the ICC Performance Code
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What is entailed in this research effort?
The Code Council has engaged Meacham Associates, which has decades of experience working with countries around the world to create... -
The more prescriptive I-Codes are considered by many to be the “gold standard” – why change what is working?
First, we have seen an increased demand for more performance-based approaches in recent years. In addition, over the past few... -
Why do we need a performance-based building code?
Performance-based design has both advanced and grown in popularity over the past few decades, and many of the standards development... -
Why is the Code Council undertaking this initial review effort?
In the 20 years since the ICCPC was published, the Code Council has not received many code change proposals, which... -
Why is the Code Council focusing attention and resources on a code that is rarely used?
We have seen increasing interest from various stakeholder groups – most particularly the design community and development groups that are...
