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Recreational sports, athletic competition, and the facilities that support it, are one of the most visible activities in any school, college or university. They have requirements for safety and sustainability at the same scale as the academic and healthcare enterprises. According to IBISWorld Market Research, Sports Stadium Construction was a $6.1 billion market in 2014, Athletic & Sporting Goods Manufacturing was a $9.2 billion market in 2015, with participation in sports increasing 19.3 percent by 2019 — much of that originating in school, college and university sports and recreation programs.
Accordingly, we have been following movement in the standards suites developed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the American Society of Testing Materials, and the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) We also follow developments in the International Standards Organization’s ISO/TC 83: Sports and other recreational facilities and equipment; a standard suite with the German Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) as the global Secretariat and the American National Standards Institute as the US Technical Advisory Group.
NOCSAE, the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment, is an independent and nonprofit standards development body with the mission to enhance athletic safety through scientific research and the creation of performance standards for athletic equipment. From its mission statement:
NOCSAE is comprised of a board of directors representing stakeholders from a number of groups – including consumer and end users, equipment manufacturers and reconditioners, athletic trainers, coaches, equipment managers, and academic and sports medicine associations. These diverse interests have joined forces in an attempt to arrive at a common goal of reducing sports-related injuries.
The NOCSAE suite of standards follows American due process requirements set by ANSI. Its standards development landing page is linked below where you will find instructions about how to comment on all NOCSAE titles at any time:
At the moment, our advocacy resources give priority to athletic facilities (and their integration into #SmartCampus safety and sustainability systems) over athletic products. There is sometimes interaction between the two — artificial turf and protective equipment standards need to support one another; for example. However, our priority lies in persuading the leadership of the education industry get the user-interest (i.e. athletic facility managers) to participate in ANSI standards development processes.
The NOCSAE suite, and all other athletic and recreational product, facility and management standards is on the standing agenda of our periodic Sport colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next teleconference; open to everyone.
Issue [15-169]
Contact: Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja
Category: Athletics and Recreation
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The ICC Group B Public Comment Hearings will be held September 14 – September 18 in Lexington Kentucky. CLICK HERE for the landing page for the event, schedule and links to substantive technical content. The hearings are typically webcast so we will follow them every day.
The public comment agenda is linked below:
Complete Monograph: 2022 Group B Public Comment Agenda
The ICC typically provides a link to the monograph — which includes public comments on all titles for the present Group B cycle — ahead of the meetings. We look forward to the restoration of that link which was available a few days ago but, today, has gone missing.
It is a long document — the better part of 2000 pages — and must be undergoing revision. In the standards domain, everything is under revision; by definition. Use search terms such as “school”, “student”, “college”, “university”, “hospital”, etc. Keep in mind that there are two other title groupings — A & B — in the ICC catalog.
Update: March 30
2022 Group B Committee Action Hearings
Rochester, New York | March 27 – April 6, 2022
2022 GROUP B PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE I-CODES: COMPLETE MONOGRAPH (1971 Pages)
Codes and same concepts now under consideration in the Group B Cycle:
• Code Administrative Provisions
• International Building Code – Structural
Wind and snow load maps, calculations and calculators
Resilience of education facilities as storm shelters
Guardrails for fall safety
Photovoltaic system roof load on education facilities
Roueche, D.B., Nakayama, J., Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn University Ginn College of Engineering, “Quantification of Common Wind
Damage Patterns in Recent Windstorms.” May 2021
• International Existing Building Code
Mold control in school buildings
Adult and children changing stations
• International Performance Code for Buildings and Facilities
• International Green Construction Code (Chapter 1)
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