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
