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Updated November 21, 2024

School, college and university security best practice literature draws from an expanding code and standards catalog of hundreds of non-profit membership and trade associations; each intended to have their titles incorporated by reference into public safety legislation.  One need only examine the transcripts of the most recent code-making processes of the International Code Council using the search terms — school, security, doors, student, egress, lock; for example.

2024 Group A Proposed Changes to the I-Codes

2022 GROUP B PROPOSED CHANGES: COMPLETE MONOGRAPH MARCH/APRIL 2022 (1971 pages)

The updated catalog revision schedule has been released by the International Code Council:

2024/2025/2026 ICC CODE DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE

Today we will scan relevant concepts — some that succeeded in adoption, some that failed, some that need to be added to the discussion — in order to prepare proposals of our own.  Public input on the 2024 Group A Codes will be received by the ICC cdpACCESS facility until January 8, 2024.

We maintain nearly every title in the International Code Council catalog in any of our daily colloquia.  Today at 15:00 UTC we will examine as many campus security concepts as time permits; setting up a breakout session as necessary.  Open to everyone.  Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

August 27, 2018

The next step in the ICC Group A Code Development Process is the release of the Public Comment Agenda on August 31st.  We will sort through that monograph and begin reaching out to experts* who are permitted to speak at the ICC Fall Committee Action Hearings  October 24-31, 2018 in Richmond Virginia.  See: Complete 2018 Group A Schedule. 

We encourage our colleagues in the Richmond, Virginia area to register and attend those hearings.

As the Group A cycle draws to a close we are beginning to prepare public input for the next batch of ICC consensus documents.  Public input for the Group B Codes — the International Energy Conservation Code among them — is January 7, 2019.   We have scheduled our first teleconference on the Group B codes for November 9th, 11:00 AM

ICC Group B Markup

July 11, 2018

A number of candidate code changes regarding ingress and egress paths in education facilities were debated during April’s International Code Council Spring Committee Action Hearings in Columbus, Ohio.  These have been identified in our previous post and are identified below.  Search the Complete Monograph to see the proposal detail.

IBC Proposal E49-18 | New definition of “Control Vestibule”

IBC Proposal E48-18 | Locking arrangements in educational occupancies (PDF Page 141)

IFC F37-18 | Fire safety, evacuation and lockdown plans | (PDF Page 1086)

IFC F38-18 | Exterior door numbering | (Page 1087)

Keep in mind that the placement of educational facility safety concepts –whether a concept belongs in the fire code or the building code or both — is an ongoing debate among building safety professionals generally.   Regretfully, school security is a “growth opportunity” and many non-profit trade associations are responding to the challenge and the opportunity.  We keep track of the competition among them at this link: School Security Concepts.

The public has an opportunity to respond to the formal balloting on Committee Actions with the release of the document linked below:

2018 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ACTION HEARINGS ON THE 2018 EDITIONS OF THE GROUP A INTERNATIONAL CODES

Comments are due July 16th.  Additionally, public comment is possible at the Fall Committee Action Hearings.   The results of the Group A Hearings will be revisited during the Group A Public Comment Hearings, October 24-31, 2018 in Richmond Virginia.  See: Complete 2018 Group A Schedule.

We keep the entire ICC suite on the standing agenda of our weekly Open Door Teleconference — every Wednesday, 11 AM Eastern Time.  Click here to log in.

Issue: [Various]

Category: Architectural, Facility Asset Management, Space Planning

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben

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