ICC Code Article Cause for Concern
ICC Code Article Cause for Concern
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RE: ICC Code Article Cause for Concern
(I'm being sarcastic here).
I'm not sure I understand the issues of concern here. Gosch seems to be concerned that the process is too quick and doesn't allow engineers time to weigh in on any proposed changes.
RE: ICC Code Article Cause for Concern
Most of the standards bodies are moving towards a 5-year cycle to minimize the frequency of changes to a user. If that were the case here, we could have had a 2 year window to learn the new code prior to proposing changes, then they could have their 3 year review and approval process. There is likely to be not that much changed in IBC 09, since many of the standards group won't issue a new edition until 2010 after their last one in 2005.
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http://www.gostructural.com/article.asp?id=3574
RE: ICC Code Article Cause for Concern
i seriously doubt i will see dramatic improvements on the topic because it is like killing the cash cow.
RE: ICC Code Article Cause for Concern
Simply put it is a Money Making Machine. I go back to the late 70's using the BOCA Code. In the 100's of buildings I did through the 80's and 90's there was rarely a code issue. Today its all about selling new codes.
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RE: ICC Code Article Cause for Concern
Take the sign industry for example. ASCE 7-05 jacked up the wind loads by over 50% on signs as compared to most US building codes that have ever existed. It took some doing, but many in the sign industry got together to fund research in an attempt to revise these loads. This is not cheap to do. So while those in the industry are getting hit with huge structure cost increases, they are also spending money on this research. When will this all pay off? Probably not until 2018! It is too late to get the results into ASCE 7-10, so they have to wait for ASCE 7-15. That spec will not be in IBC until 2015 or 2018.
Although I agree that it is getting ridiculous having to buy codes and updates constantly and having to know the prior 3 versions for locations that haven't adopted the new versions, at least if a supplement comes out that contradicts the current code by correcting an error a building official may be more likely to approve a variance from that code. Now that opportunity is lost.
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Is this not the case in the US?
RE: ICC Code Article Cause for Concern
There's no national policy on amendments vs. interims vs. whatever.
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