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    ICC Facebook - No longer a building safety organization

    Let's replace this with "apathy" or "disinterest", so that the point of the post remains.
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    ICC Facebook - No longer a building safety organization

    As if my last post about dropping ICC membership altogether wasn't indicative enough as to my general insouciance with the organization...... Have you noticed that their Facebook posts have absolutely nothing to do with building safety? The last several are architectural in nature, showcasing...
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    Electronic Permitting Software

    Thanks - I'm interested to hear the final verdict!
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    Electronic Permitting Software

    I'm looking at this one, too, and just wondering if you made your 'go live' schedule and how you like it, Fatboy?
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    Drop ICC membership?

    Sounds like I need to better explain. After reading the replies (which I very much appreciate, by the way), and then re-reading my OP, I want to clarify that much of the malaise surrounding the ICC that I described belongs to the town board and not so much with me (although it has certainly...
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    Drop ICC membership?

    Our community has been an ICC member since its inception; BOCA before that. In the past several years, our training/ travel budget has been reduced to zero, effectively. Our ISO rating dropped to a 9 from a previous 4. We are on the 2003 edition of the code, because we don't want to face the...
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    Privatizing / Contract Inspections

    I'm looking for any and all feedback. The City Manager has proposed that we consider contracting out our inspection services to a large national company. Her concept is to introduce the concept gradually and attrition out current inspectors as they move on or retire (although we have a few...
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    Can someone explain Section / Table 1604.5?

    So to (maybe) revive this topic and ask the question in a more specific way: Would the Occupancy Category or Risk Category in some way prohibit a fire station from being constructed as a II-B basic metal building (post-and-beam steel structure with standing seam metal skin)? It would seem that...
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    New lot line through existing building

    I have been presented with a scenario that I haven't seen before. A property owner is proposing to subdivide an existing II-B building into separate parcels. There are no existing walls along the newly-created lot line. Does the building code permit there to be no wall at a property line /...
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    Permanent temporary buildings without foundation

    Frank - thanks. That's kind of where I'm going with this. It's almost as if it needs to be addressed through zoning or a code amendment in order to prohibit these types of structures?
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    Permanent temporary buildings without foundation

    So to continue as 'devil's advocate': We're not in a seismic zone, so that isn't a concern. Can anchorage be provided by some sort of tie-down system or means other than a foundation?
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    Permanent temporary buildings without foundation

    Here I am back with another dumb question, to which I am sure there is a plainly obvious answer, it just eludes me at the moment. We are occasionally approached by folks wanting to place small, portable pre-fab sheds on commercial lots for either a small office use (used car sales) or food...
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    Can someone explain Section / Table 1604.5?

    So am I correct that this classification basically means nothing to the code official, with there being no references to the classification anywhere else in the code?
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    Can someone explain Section / Table 1604.5?

    I've never understood the implication of Section 1604.5: Occupancy Category. Buildings shall be assigned an occupancy category in accordance with Table 1604.5. Ok, so we do that -- now what? What does that Occupancy Category classification drive within the code? I don't recall ever seeing...
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    ONESolution by Sungard

    Just curious how many - if any - of you are using ONESolution Community software by Sungard and what your opinion is of the functionality?
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    I made it!!! Three year Board seat

    Congratulations, Jim!
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    Problems we face!

    Make 'em do a Ch. 34 evaluation - this is the only way to establish code compliance in an existing building - you can't apply the rest of the book just based on a change of use or occupancy. That "score sheet", while it requires a certain degree of code savvy, is not "design", so it can be...
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    dealing with C.A.V.E. men

    Code compliance is ultimately the owner's responsibility. Our state is about to pass a law requiring that all code violation notices include a code citation. Electricity is not astrophysics, either, so I get highly annoyed with the electrical inspector who refuses to dialogue with the "layman"...
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    Mortarless Concrete Block Walls

    Go to the National Concrete Masonry Association's website ( www.ncma.org ) and search their "e Tek" notes. They have done rather extensive testing on this type of wall assembly.
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    Happy birthday to the forum

    Let's of course not forget to thank our BOD candidate, Jim Brown, for his Paul Revere-like collecting of contact information from many of us in the eleventh hour right before the ever forward-thinking ICC turned out the lights and locked the door at the "old place". Were it not for him and that...
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    P-Trap in Attic

    Good to "see" you again, UB!!
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    Nuisance clean up procedure

    I'm curious to hear how others handle what is a very basic, routine process: Scenario: A notice to mow / clean up rubbish / etc. has not been complied with and the AHJ acts on the authority given under the code or other ordinances to abate the nuisance and then bills the property owner for the...
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    Hours of Operation

    Some typically antiquated language from our code: "No construction or alteration operations shall be carried on at night time if the same are accompanied by loud noises, except with the consent of the Council."
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    Happy Holidays

    A very merry Christmas to all of my fellow forum denizens. Your wisdom and counsel over the past year has been invaluable.
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    3rd Floor Dwellings?

    Thanks, Frank! This is exactly the kind of info. I'm looking for.
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