What would happen if nobody bought the new 2012 ed.? Come-on JAE, don’t encourage the ICC to produce more confusion, just for their own enrichment. Let the ICC sit with that edition, get it cleaned up and corrected, and then learn that they can’t keep foisting this crap on us when it only offers additional, new complexity to our lives, without really offering much in the way of improvements or tangible value.
The ICC has become a self serving industry unto themselves, rather than an operation which serves to truly improve the construction industry. They don’t automatically deserve an income, they should be producing something that helps us do our jobs better and safer, and until they can prove that they do, we should make every effort to make their life as unprofitable as they make ours. Think of all the time we collectively waste learning and arguing about the intent of the newest and bestest, and what section that topic is now located in. We aren’t producing appreciably better buildings with each new ed., we should have enough time to really learn to use the one we have. I’d vote for a 7 or 10 year cycle, with some serious synchronizing btwn. the various codes, and addendums if something serious is found to be in error.
Tell your city, your state building dept., your legislature, whoever is in charge of adopting this new code, that for all its cost and disruption, it is not going to cause appreciably better buildings, and not adopting it will not cause buildings all around them to come falling down. We will end up producing better, safer projects if we actually become familiar with and comfortable using the codes we already have in hand.
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