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...
