Redefining Leadership in Building Safety: Omarys Vasquez’s Career Journey and Lasting Influence
Omarys Vasquez is the longest serving woman building inspector in Connecticut history.

Through her role as State Building Inspector with Connecticut Department of Administrative Services, Division of Regulatory Compliance, Omarys Vasquez is known for advancing a collaborative code discussion that values all perspectives for safer communities…

From Loss to Legacy: Parents Drive Approval of Life-Saving Gate Code Changes
The approval of these gate safety proposals will help protect communities worldwide and represent a major shift in how gates are regulated.

On May 22, 2026, gate safety proposals G183‑25 (Parts I & III), RB282‑25, and PM29‑25 were approved through the International Code Council’s (ICC) code development process. Following Validation Committee certification and ICC Board approval, these…

Middle Housing: Updates, Resources and the Road to 2030
ICC has prepared materials to better identify applicable code requirements for middle housing, tracked developments in the 2027 I-Code development cycle, and has launched additional consensus building forums to facilitate additional discussions for future code updates.

“Middle housing” generally describes a range of multi-unit or clustered housing types—such as triplexes, quadplexes, and small apartment buildings—that fall between detached single-family or low-rise townhomes governed by the International Residential Code® (IRC), and larger multifamily developments. Like the latter, middle…