by bascomadmin | Aug 18, 2021 | News & Updates
WEST PALM BEACH — The deadly condominium collapse in Surfside hung over a series of panel discussions in West Palm Beach on Tuesday as engineers and building safety officials discussed what can be done to make structures in Florida safer. A moment of silence was...
by bascomadmin | Aug 17, 2021 | News & Updates
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Building safety organizations from around the country gathered Tuesday in West Palm Beach for a dialogue on how to prevent another Surfside condo collapse. The panel focused on how communities monitor the safety of existing buildings, what...
by bascomadmin | Jul 9, 2021 | News & Updates
The 2021 edition of Rating the States published by the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety ranked Florida as number one out of eighteen states along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts based on building code adoption, enforcement, and contractor licensing....
by Rene | Feb 6, 2020 | News & Updates
The recommendations of the TACs on all public comments submitted to the First Draft of the 7th Edition (2020) Florida Building Code and recommendations will be presented to the Florida Building Commission on February 11, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. The DBPR staff...
by Rene | Sep 27, 2017 | News & Updates
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson positively recognized the I-codes in his discussion about the recent hurricanes that hit Florida saying “building codes do work.” You can view this portion of this testimony at 47:33 by visiting...
by Rene | May 18, 2017 | News & Updates
Following Florida State Senator Kathleen Passidomo issuing a proclamation marking May 2017 as “Florida Building Safety Month,” Floridians for Safe Communities’ coalition member the International Code Council (ICC) launched a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on the...
