The International Code Council’s Certification and Testing
Department continues to help communities safeguard and implement
licensing and certification programs aimed at promoting a
safer community and complying with Federal construction guidelines.
One of the latest activities by the Code Council’s Certification
and Testing Department is exemplified in its recent contract
with Ohio’s Manufactured Homes Commission, for which
the Council will be developing an Ohio Manufactured Housing
Installer and Inspector licensing exam that can be customized
for use by other states. This contract arises from a recent
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) directive
for all states to adopt standards for the installation of
manufactured homes. Like Ohio, Florida, Wyoming and several
other states are now determining ways to best comply with
HUD’s new guidelines.
Many other communities are not regulating contractors who
install manufactured homes. The Code Council will continue
to work with building department officials by offering certification
and testing services to their manufactured home installers
in their jurisdictions to help them meet the new HUD directive.
From left to right (back row), Walter
Chaney; Jim Bax; Julie Combs, Executive Director, State
of Ohio Manufactured Homes Commission; Tom Maloney,
BI and ESI Supervisor, Warren County, Ohio; Thomas Gladd,
Assistant C.B.O., Trumbull County Ohio; Karen Ash, Ohio
Bureau of Environmental Health, ODH; and Bill Williams,
Warren County Ohio; (front row) John Humphrey, C.B.O.
Retired from City of Fairborn, Ohio; Dianne Roller,
ODH Ohio Health Department; and Tim Wakeley, Union County,
Ohio Inspector.
