The International Code Council (ICC) — an organization
made up of the three major code-writing agencies,
BOCA, ICBO, and SBCCI — is pressing ahead with its effort
to move the U.S. toward a single, truly national family of
building codes, including the International Fuel Gas Code,
International Mechanical Code, and International Plumbing
Code. Two of the most closely watched of the so-called ICodes
— the International Building Code (IBC) and
International Residential Code (IRC) — have already been
adopted by at least six states and dozens of local jurisdictions.
(The relationship between the two is similar to that
between the old BOCA National Building Code and the
CABO One and Two Family