Kao Chen
Member
How many of you have decided that the best path to a CBO certification has been to become an ICC Combination Inspector or a Combination Plans Examiner before you take the Legal/Management Module? Guess what? All your hard work will not count towards your CBO certification (see the new exam bulletin). From what I read you will now be required to take 3 exams: Management Module, Legal Module and Building Codes & Standard Module. Your Combination certifications will no longer count.
I can see the logic in splitting up the Legal & Management into 2 exams but to no longer count your Combination certification as equal to the new technology exam is beyond logic. To top it all off, the new CBO exams are based only on the 2015 codes which my jurisdiction will never adopt (6 year cycle currently on the 2012 codes). If you have not all ready started the 'old' process (taken the old legal/management or technology module) before 1/1/2015 then you have to go through the new process. I'm feeling screwed!
I hope that I'm misunderstanding this new approach.
I can see the logic in splitting up the Legal & Management into 2 exams but to no longer count your Combination certification as equal to the new technology exam is beyond logic. To top it all off, the new CBO exams are based only on the 2015 codes which my jurisdiction will never adopt (6 year cycle currently on the 2012 codes). If you have not all ready started the 'old' process (taken the old legal/management or technology module) before 1/1/2015 then you have to go through the new process. I'm feeling screwed!
I hope that I'm misunderstanding this new approach.