The Summer Conference meeting schedule will continue to address association business and committee work with additional focus on Canadian issues, including the traditional update on Canadian codes and legislation, and also an overview of Building Knowledge Canada.
The International Code Council announced that Russ Manning, former Executive Director of Facility Operations & Maintenance for the National Facility Services of the Kaiser Permanente Health System, joined the Codes and Standards Department as Deputy Senior Vice President of Technical Services.
On Tuesday, April 4, 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed H.R. 5689, the Resilient Assistance for Mitigation for Environmentally Resilient Infrastructure and Construction by Americans Act, or Resilient AMERICA Act.
On March 15, the President signed into law the Fiscal Year 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act, bipartisan legislation to fund the U.S. federal government through September 30, 2022.
The bipartisan bill seeks to preserve development of codes and standards that promote community resilience, advance sustainability and protect public safety.
The International Code Council and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory have combined efforts to assess the code compliance of the permitting specifications for clean energy technologies and battery storage systems for integration into the Solar Automated Permit Processing Platform.