Code Insights offer helpful context to enhance your understanding of the code—such as the intent behind a section or recent changes that affect it.
Note that Code Insights require a Premium subscription to view.
Identify code insights
Insights are indicated by a gold “Insights” tag next to section titles to identify available insights and appear below the full code section content.
See a full list of sections with code insights for the entire code title under the Insights tab in the Table of Contents.
There you can filter insights by type.
View a code insight
View the insight by selecting the code insight button under the Insights section of any section.
Types of Code Insights
Digital Codes is constantly adding Code Insights on a wide range of new and existing titles. Insight types include:
- Code Change Details – Comprehensive background on each change including the original proposal, committee action, and final action documentation. Serves to simplify researching the history of a new, revised or deleted code section between cycles by showing approved changes in legislative format helping the understanding, interpretation and intent of the I-Code provisions.
- Hearing Videos – Recording testimony and rebuttal regarding change proposals from the ICC Committee Action and ICC Public Comment Hearings. The discussion provides context behind technical changes incorporated into the current version of the I-Codes.
- Key Changes – Sourced from the Significant Changes series, each change analysis features the affected code sections and identifies the change with strikethroughs and underlines to show modifications to the existing language. Each change is accompanied by a quick summary, detailed illustrations, and discussion of its significance, which brings the technical jargon of the code to life in a real-world setting
- Commentary Excerpts – Extracted from the full Commentary title, this easy-to-reference format focuses on providing the full meaning and implications of the code. Designed to suggest the most effective method of application, and the consequences of not adhering to the code.
- Premium Answers – Premium Answers delivers a constantly expanding searchable database of questions and their carefully crafted interpretations from the ICC team of technical experts.
- Compliance Calculators – Digital Codes Premium is partnering with ClearCalcs on a compliance calculator pilot that will provide access to Premium Complete users to three structural compliance calculators: Beam Analysis, Concrete Pier Footing and Cross Section Database.
- cdpACCESS Proposals Under Consideration Tags – cdpACCESS (cdpaccess.com), which stands for code development process ACCESS, is a web based tool available to everyone which facilitates the process by which the I-Codes get updated every 3 years. Registered ICC account holders can sign in and submit proposals to add, remove, or modify sections of the 2024 I-Codes. These proposals are reviewed in Committee Action Hearings by a council of peers, who listen to testimony and may suggest further changes (Committee Modifications). Proposals then go through an online vote by validated users within cdpACCESS. Approved changes are incorporated into the next I-Code cycle, including the 2027 I-Codes.While browsing through your code titles, you will notice blue “CDP” tags following relevant section headings. This is to flag that it includes information about a potential code change to this section:
