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Important Notices

Unauthorized Usage Notice to Building Regulatory Agencies Click here(Posted 6-30-09)

Date for Compliance with 2009 Codes Extended. Click here(Posted: 04-17-09)

AC308 Test Plans. Click here
(Posted: 02-19-09)

Technical Review of Patio Cover Engineering Analysis. Click here to read. 
(Posted: 02-09-09)

Clarification on the Use of Allowable Stress Design. Click here to read. 
(Posted: 01-21-09)

Parties Interested in Cold-formed Steel Framing Members; Indentions on Stud Flanges and Corrugations in Stud Webs. Click here to read. (Posted: 01-05-09)

ICC-ES partners with EPA to promote water conservation. Click here to read. (Posted: 12-22-08)

New ICC-ES Program Earns ANSI Accreditation. Click here to read.
(Posted: 12-03-08)

Guideline for Seismic Performance Factors. Click here to read. (Posted: 12-03-08)

ICC-ES Sustainable Attributes Verification and Evaluation (SAVE™) Program. Click here to read.

2007 Florida Building Code (FBC) Supplement Memo to Applicants and Report Holders. Click here to read.

CBC Supplement Memo to Report Holders and Applicants. Click here to read.

Cold-formed Steel Shear Walls — 2006 IBC. Click here to read.

Use of canceled evaluation reports: BY Mix Design Methods, Inc., and by Trimax Building Products.

Public Notice Concerning Misleading Use of ICC-ES Evaluation Reports on Insulating Concrete Forms. Click here to read.

An open discussion on a one-third increase when designing prefabricated lateral-force-resisting assemblies. Click here to read.

Notice: ReddiForm, Inc., Wire Works, Inc., and TruStone America, Inc.

ICC-ES notes use of canceled evaluation reports: Engineered Rubber Products (ERP) and 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. Click here to read.

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Announcements

Approval of ICC-ES Validated Product by Florida Building Commission is a Milestone (Posted: 06-2-09)

ICC-ES PMG Listing Program Gains Significant Momentum (Posted: 04-30-09)

ICC-ES Verifies Recycled Content in Nu-Wool Insulation (Posted: 04-22-09)

ICC-ES PMG Clarifies NSF 61 Annex G Versus California 0.25 Percent Lead Legislation
(Posted: 03-27-09)

Johnson Succeeds Nosse as ICC-ES President
(Posted: 03-24-09)

ICC-ES SAVE Program Announces First Verification of Sustainability Claim
(Posted: 03-04-09)

International Code Council and Cengage Learning Launch Online Resource for Green Building (Posted: 02-27-09)

Code Council Board Acts on Ethics, Sponsorships (Posted: 02-09-09)

Promote Safety and Building Innovation (Posted: 01-14-09)

New Evaluation Program Verifies Product Sustainability (Posted: 10-29-08)

ES Recognized as Florida Validation Entity (Posted: 10-16-08)

Number of ICC-ES PMG Listings Double

Memo to Code Officials

ICC-ES, CSTB Collaborate to Foster International Trade with China.

Private Label Listing on Evaluation Reports NEW

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Articles

The ICC-ES Acceptance Criteria Process Click here to read.  (Posted: 06-22-09)

Why Should I Care About ICC-ES Evaluation Reports? Click here to read. 
(Posted: 05-11-09)

Verifying Sustainability, Understanding the ICC-ES SAVE Program. Click here to read (article appears on pages 20-21). (Posted: 05-11-09)

Introducing the ICC-ES SAVE Program. Click here to read.  (Posted: 01-08-09)

ICC-ES Success Stories. Click here to read.

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.

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.

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PowerPoint Presentations

How to prepare a better submittal package. Click here(Posted: 01-13-09)

ICC-ES—Innovative Products with Code Solutions. ICC-ES Symposium presentations given during the 2008 ICC Annual Conference. Click here
(Posted: 11-03-08)

Educational Presentation for Chapters. Click here.

Description of ICC-ES Evaluation Committee hearing process and flowchart. Click here (PowerPoint).

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