Nation's Building Code Outlook Anything But Certain
Off the Wall
For code officials, it was to have been the supreme achievement, a defining moment for the new millennium.
In 1994, the three national code bodies, International Council of Building Officials, Building Officials and Code Administrators and the Southern Building Code Congress International, forged an agreement to supplant their respective model codes the Uniform Building Code, the National Building Code and the Standard Building Code with a new, comprehensive International Building Code.