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Board of Directors elected to lead consolidated ICC
The International
Code Council (ICC) Board of Directors elected to serve terms beginning
next year will be the first ICC Board for the newly consolidated member
service, building safety organization.
Members of Building
Officials and Code Administrators (BOCA), International Conference of
Building Officials (ICBO) and Southern Building Code Congress International
(SBCCI) elected ICC board directors and voted to consolidate services,
products and operations of the existing three associations into one organization
during their annual business meetings. The new ICC is expected to begin
operations in late-January.
The ICC is a membership
association that develops building safety codes used to construct residential
and commercial buildings including housing and schools. ICC also provides
technical and educational services to the construction industry.
More than 97% of
U.S. cities, counties and states that adopt codes choose building and
fire codes created by the three building safety groups that make up the
ICC. ICC Codes are used across America and around the world. The development
of I-Codes without regional limitations responds to the needs of the construction
industry and has strong backing from code enforcement officials, architects,
engineers, builders, developers, and building owners and managers.
"The board brings
a depth of professional knowledge and strong leadership skills to the
organization that will be of great value to our members and to the future
of building safety," said ICC Chief Executive Officer Bob D. Heinrich.
"I am excited about working with the board to develop a world-class
service organization and to ensure that the buildings, we live in, send
our children to school in, and work in, are safely constructed buildings."
Paul E. Myers,
Assistant Director of the Cincinnati (Ohio) Department of Buildings and
Inspections, was elected President of the ICC board. He has served on
the board since 1997. He is a certified building official and certified
building inspector. He is a former president of the BOCA Board, and recipient
of the Ohio Building Official of the Year award and Cincinnati's Meritorious
Service award.
Anne R. vonWeller,
Chief Building Official for Murray (Utah) City Corporation, was elected
Vice President. A certified building official, she has served as chair
of the ICBO Means of Egress Code Review Committee and the Utah State Building
Code Commission, and vice chair of the Utah Seismic Safety Commission.
Nick D'Andrea,
Jr., Manager of Commercial Development Services for the City of Tampa
(Florida), was elected Secretary/Treasurer. He has served on the board
since 1997. A certified building official, he is an SBCCI past president.
He has served on several ICC and SBCCI committees and has been a moderator
at code development hearings since 1989.
Elected as directors
of the ICC Board were: Wally E. Bailey, Director of Development
and Construction for the City of Fort Smith (Arkansas); Edwin M. Berkel,
Fire Marshal for the Mehlville (Missouri) Fire Protection District; Terrence
L. Cobb, Director of the Department of Codes Administration for Nashville
and Davidson County (Tennessee); William L. Duck, Jr., Chief of
Inspections and Code Enforcement Division for the City of Columbus (Georgia);
William D. Dupler, Chesterfield County (Virginia) Building Official;
Gerry George, Chief Building Official for the Boulder County (Colorado)
Land Use Department, Building Safety and Inspection Services Division;
Henry L. Green, Executive Director, Bureau of Construction Codes,
Michigan Department of Consumer and Industry Services; Dorothy M. "Dottie"
Harris, Assistant Secretary of State, New York State Department of
State; Frank P. Hodge, Jr., Director of Building and Fire Codes,
Town of Hilton Head Island (South Carolina); Frederick M. Herman,
Chief Building Official for the City of Palo Alto (California); Greg
Johnson, Building Inspector for the City of Saint Paul (Minnesota);
H. H. "Bubba" Roberts, Building Official for Phenix City
(Alabama); James (Tim) T. Ryan, Codes Administrator for Overland
Park (Kansas) Steven I. Shapiro, Director of Codes Compliance for
Hampton (Virginia); and Jim Tidwell, Fire Chief of the Fort Worth
(Texas) Fire and Rescue Department.
The ICC was founded
by BOCA, ICBO, and SBCCI in 1994 as a nonprofit organization dedicated
to developing a single set of comprehensive and coordinated national model
construction codes.
