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    ICC announces new Code Forum!

    Kind of like surveying the incoming freshman class in their first week on campus about how to improve student life, instead of surveying the outgoing seniors. Sounds like it's as much about indoctrinating young minds as it is seeking input. Preferred methods of "accessing information" and...
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    ICC announces new Code Forum!

    Look like anyone in your building department?
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    ICC announces new Code Forum!

    Because we're old, obsolete, and "don't get it" - that's why we aren't 'embracing' the green codes and other high priority initiatives of the ICC. Notice the photographs at the headers of all of the screens on their websites? Looks like they copied them from a college or university website -...
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    ICC announces new Code Forum!

    Duplicate (again, yes - hopefully there isn't a penalty for too many duplicate posts!!)
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    ICC announces new Code Forum!

    Now, Bob, The Code Development Committee, or whatever it's called, which is reviewing the whole code development process and "looking into" remote voting, etc., determined that certification in a given code as a prerequisite to voting on any given code should not be required. Surely they came...
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    ICC announces new Code Forum!

    I got that one, too. How many "35 or younger" code officials do they think there are? If you follow the model set forth in Appendix A (I realize they haven't read their own publications), you have to have a minimum of 10 years experience as a superintendent, architect, engineer, etc.; So...
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    Happy Holidays from ICC

    Your junk filter must have a good 'nose' for that stuff!
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    "Concealed spaces not requiring sprinkler protection" (NFPA 13 8.15.1.2.1)

    Thanks, mtlogcabin - good points! I'll try to file all of this information away in my unreliable memory for the next project that comes along. In this particular case, the sprinkler plans were a deferred submittal; the building plans were approved, which included notes indicating a full '13'...
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    Happy Holidays from ICC

    Whereas the porch roof does not appear to meet the minimum slope requirements of R905.2.2
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    Happy Holidays from ICC

    Those appear to be dead coniferous evergreen trees; our ordinances would require them to be removed.
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    "Concealed spaces not requiring sprinkler protection" (NFPA 13 8.15.1.2.1)

    All the rest of the attic is non-combustible: Light-gauge steel trusses, fiberglass insulation, gypsum ceiling, walls beneath are steel studs - everything but the roof sheathing, which is not FRT. So the consensus is that it does not meet the requirements for the exemption?? Thanks, by the...
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    "Concealed spaces not requiring sprinkler protection" (NFPA 13 8.15.1.2.1)

    We have an I-1 structure of V-B construction being constructed with an NFPA 13 system. The roof structure is a 6/12 gable roof, constructed of light gauge steel trusses and 5/8 CDF plywood sheathing (shingled roof). Because of the width of the building, the 6/12 pitch yields a rather large...
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    ICC zoning inspector exam

    That's what I mean, yes - again, a very rough estimation, but there were a ton of questions from the Legal Aspects book.
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    ICC zoning inspector exam

    Gauherr, Welcome to the forum! If you're asking if you need the Legal Aspects book - Yes!! And not only for the test, but it's a great reference to have around the office. I don't recall precisely, but I'd venture to say at least half of the questions come from that text. Good luck!! Let us...
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    Flashing not required at single-wythe masonry?

    Slow getting back to this thread. Go here: http://midwestproductsgroup.com/index.php/categories/Commercial-Masonry/Technical-Notes-and-Details , click on 'NCMA', then 'e-Tek' for the NCMA Tek notes. Go to #19 - Water Penetration Resistance. There's a great section detail there showing a...
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    Sump pump discharge & ice

    Thanks, that's more or less how we've handled it to this point - once it gets to right-of-way, it's Public Works' problem. It seems to me it could easily fit into our defined nuisances, as it does constitute a "public" nuisance once it enters right-of-way, and it is caused in whole by the...
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    Sump pump discharge & ice

    Thanks, Coug Dad! Now a couple of questions: 1. Could a critic attack that section on the basis that the language specifies "walking area", and in many or most of the cases here, the discharge is directly to the curb line, which flows into a traffic area - not a "walking area"? 2. I've...
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    Sump pump discharge & ice

    Curious as to how those of you in the northern climates deal with sump pump discharge, when it discharges on a public way and creates an ice skating rink. Do you first of all disallow sump pump discharge on a public way? If not, do you address it through Section 507 of the Property Maintenance...
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    R703.8 Window flashing no longer required

    I believe that if you read further, the code also eliminates the requirement for flashing if the flashing material, or the installation thereof, bears a cost. "...You know how much cost that's gonna add, Mr. Inspector??!!!???"
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    Would you do this????

    Thanks for the videos. Now I can count on having at least one of those "falling" dreams in the nights to come!
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    Iso/bcegs

    Duplicate post
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    Iso/bcegs

    This is the only value to the exercise that I can see. It has the effect of an independent audit of the department, for those of us who couldn't begin to pass an IAS Accreditation, and "shames" administrations into providing staff, training, and updating codes when they are possibly resistant...
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    Means of egress lighting in existing occupancies

    Uh......can't comment on the reason (for reasons you might imagine) It was discovered by our FD through their periodic inspection program. It seems like it should be a minimum requirement for even existing Assembly occupancies with a large OL, but I didn't see it as a retroactive requirement...
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    Means of egress lighting in existing occupancies

    Not a Fire guy, so I'm looking for a code basis - if there is one - for requiring emergency means of egress lighting in existing buildings. I have (well - I don't - but our community does) an assembly space with an OL of around 400 persons, which has been in existence for decades, and which has...
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    Trees......(aren't we supposed to be BUILDING inspectors??)

    Back to my OP - I'm referring specifically to trees as nuisances. You know - the neighbor calling to complain about the tree in the next yard with a dead branch overhanging their property, and the "What are you guys gonna do" phone calls that ensue. We have a City Forester, like Fatboy, but...
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