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he International Code Council is a nonprofit association that provides a wide range of building safety solutions including product evaluation, accreditation, certification, codification and training. It develops model codes and standards used worldwide to construct safe, sustainable, affordable and resilient structures.
The International Code Council (ICC) family of solutions includes the ICC Evaluation Service (ICC-ES), S.K. Ghosh Associates, the International Accreditation Service (IAS), General Code, NTA Inc., and Alliance for National & Community Resilience (ANCR), which are dedicated to the construction of safe, sustainable, affordable and resilient structures.
Our mission to protect the health, safety and welfare of people by creating safe buildings and communities is the basis for our beliefs. We strive to create safe spaces for everyone in our community to live, work and learn.
- Alliance for National & Community Resilience (ANCR): ANCR™, founded by the International Code Council, U.S. Resiliency Council and the Meridian Institute, is a national coalition of public and private sector stakeholders working to advance community resilience. ANCR’s primary objective is the development of a system of community benchmarks—the first system of its kind in the United States—that will allow local leaders to easily assess and improve their resilience across all functions of a community.
- International Codes: The International Codes (I-Codes), developed by the International Code Council, are a family of fifteen coordinated, modern building safety codes that help ensure the engineering of safe, sustainable, affordable and resilient structures.
- Global Resiliency Dialogue: Building code developers/researchers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States have launched the Global Resiliency Dialogue, a joint initiative to inform the development of building codes that draw on both building science and climate science to improve the resilience of buildings and communities to intensifying risks from weather-related natural hazards.
- Building Safety Month: Building Safety Month is an international initiative celebrated each May to raise awareness about building safety. It includes events to engage the public and build understanding on the importance of building codes and regulatory frameworks that support their adoption and enforcement.
The Code Council has 65,000 members globally who advance building and fire safety.
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The Code Council advocates for the adoption and enforcement of building codes that protect life and property in the face of increasing disaster risk.
The Code Council and the Alliance for National & Community Resilience actively engage with policy makers to raise the importance of resilience mitigation activities including adoption and enforcement of building codes and benchmarking of community resilience strategies.
The Code Council also serves as the administrator of Building Safety Month, an international initiative celebrated each May to raise awareness about building safety.
The Code Council also maintains an extensive Learning Center featuring courses on the administration and enforcement of building codes.
Building codes are a key strategy to reduce the vulnerability of buildings. The National Institute of Building Sciences found that the adoption of the 2018 International Building Code and International Residential Code provide an $11 benefit for every $1 spent.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.