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So according to my reading - the ICC is an organization that makes building codes. Then they lobby state and federal governments to adopt them into law. Then
by rwcarlsen 8y ago
So according to my reading - the ICC is an organization that makes building codes. Then they lobby state and federal governments to adopt them into law. Then they make their money by charging people for access to those codes. Talk about twisted incentives. No wonder building codes are becoming complex faster and faster.
- Old_Thrashbarg 8y agoOne correction: ICC organizes the committee of volunteers who write the laws. That's how they have such massive profit margins and can afford to pay their CEO $742,000, when the median non-profit CEO gets $104,000 (see our references here: up.codes/free-law).
- metaphor 8y ago> Then they make their money by charging people for access to those codes. The entirety of ICC's building code as it applies to my state is both freely accessible by the general public on their website, and unlike other complete douchebag SDOs--looking at you, NFPA--it's actually usable. Anecdotally, I leveraged the crap out of the residential building code while contracting extensive rennovations to my home last year. With so much liability behind them, building codes will always be relatively complex.