Code Council History
The International Code Council was created in 1994 as a non-profit organization dedicated to developing a single set of comprehensive and coordinated national model construction codes. The founders of the ICC are Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc. (BOCA), International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO), and Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc. (SBCCI). Since the early part of the last century, these three non-profit organizations developed individual sets of codes used throughout the U.S. The individual codes created by these organizations helped shape regional development, but as the country became more cohesive, the need for a single set of codes became apparent. These three organizations responded to the call by creating the Code Council and began developing codes that were no longer regionally focused but nationally focused. The codes that came out of this endeavor are known as the International Codes, or I-Codes.
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