IGCC A New Approach for Safe and Sustainable Construction
The International Code Council (ICC) is a membership association dedicated to building safety and fire prevention. ICC develops the codes and standards used to construct residential and commercial buildings, including homes and schools.
The International Codes, or I-Codes, published by ICC, provide minimum safeguards for people at home, at school and in the workplace. The I-Codes are a complete set of comprehensive, coordinated building safety and fire prevention codes. Building codes benefit public safety and support the industry’s need for one set of codes without regional limitations.
For more information about the ICC please visit their website. To review the International Green Construction Code, you may download the IGCC Public Version 2.0.
New Toolkit to Help Local Governments with Green Building Practices: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 announced the release of the Sustainable Design and Green Building Toolkit for Local Governments (Toolkit). The Toolkit contains an Assessment Tool, a Resource Guide, and an Action Plan for implementing changes to the permitting process. For more information about the toolkit click here or you can download the Toolkit.
Living City Design Competition: 'Unleash Your Imagination' - The International Living Building Institute, in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, invites the world’s most talented and daring designers, planners, artists and animators to create a new global vision: a breathtaking, compelling model for the future of civilization. Unleash the power of your imagination to envision a city capable of thriving through the centuries – one that will heal the land and prove that the human species can in fact live, in the words of E. O. Wilson, as ‘part and parcel with creation’. All entries due by February 1, 2011. For more information visit www.ilbi.org/livingcitydesign or read the competition rules .
Qualified Hardware - Building codes Listed by State: http://www.qualifiedhardware.
