News and eNews
eNews
The current issue of ICC-ES eNews is available to read
on-line.
Click
here to subscribe to ICC-ES eNews.
Click here for the eNews archive.
More News...
Click for:
- Important Notices
- Announcements
- Articles
- PowerPoint Presentations
Important Notices:
Update-Your opinion is important to us! Comment on the new ICC-ES sustainable attributes verification program guidelines. Click here for guidelines and August deadlines for comment submittal.
2007 Florida Building Code (FBC) Supplement Memo to Applicants and Report Holders, click here.
CBC Supplement Memo to Report Holders and Applicants, click here.
Cold-formed Steel Shear Walls — 2006 IBC, click here.
Conversion of Legacy Reports to ICC-ES Evaluation Reports (ESRs), click here.
Updating ICC-ES Evaluation Reports to Comply with International Codes, click here.
Public Notice Concerning Misleading Use of ICC-ES Evaluation Reports on Insulating Concrete Forms, click here.
Staff letters regarding Anchors in Concrete. (revised 12/4/06)
An open discussion on a one-third increase when designing prefabricated lateral-force-resisting assemblies click here.
IAS has issued a special notice regarding requirements for accreditation to AC304 click here.
Click here for a notice about ReddiForm, Inc., here for a notice about the Wire Works, Inc., and here for a notice about TruStone America, Inc.
ICC-ES notes use of canceled evaluation reports by Engineered Rubber Products (ERP) and by Surecrete International, Ltd.
ICC-ES has issued a notice, aimed at the general public but particularly at code officials, concerning the mislabeling of certain felt underlayment.
[ top ]
Announcements:
New PMG Program Releases Product Listings
Current job openings at ICC Evaluation Service, Inc.
ICC-ES Introduces PMG Listing Program
ICC-ES to expand into plumbing, mechanical and gas product listings
Memo to Code Officials
ICC-ES, CSTB Collaborate to Foster International Trade with China.
Private Label Listing on Evaluation Reports
NEW
European full-scale tests for the American market. Click to read.
[ top ]
Articles:
High Wind/Seismic Regions Require Sound Structural Alternatives. To read this article, click here.
Evaluating the Possibilities—Building Codes and Innovation. To read this article, click here.
Look for the ICC-ES PMG Listing Mark on Septic Tanks. To read this article, click here.
ICC-ES PMG Listing Programs. To read this article, click here.
Expertise, Collaboration
Create Foundation for
the Evaluation of New Technologies (December 2007). To read this article,
click here.
ICC-ES Satisfaction Survey, click here.
ICC-ES: The Building Official's Partner in Building Product Information (June 2006). To read this article,
click here.
Product Listings & ICC-ES Evaluation Reports. To read this article,
click here.
“Code Approval”; The Basics, The Subtleties, and The Abuses.
To read this article, click here.
[ top ]
PowerPoint Presentations:
Educational Presentation for Chapters. Click here.
Description of ICC-ES Evaluation Committee hearing process and flowchart: Click here (PowerPoint).
Special Meetings:
- How to prepare a better submittal February 2007
- QC Manuals (AC10 requirements) February 2007
- Seminar on AC10 for Inspection Agencies May 2007
[ top ]
