Metro Codes News
Terry Cobb elected to International Code Council Board of Directors
Terrence L. Cobb, Director of the Department of Codes & Building
Safety for Nashville and Davidson County, has been re-elected to serve
a second term
to the International Code Council (ICC) Board of Directors.
A member of Southern Building Code Congress International (SBCCI),
Cobb currently serves on the SBCCI Board of Directors. He is a director
of the Home Builders Association of Middle Tennessee and the National Association
of Home Builders. He has served as chair of the International Residential
Code Drafting Committee and the International Residential Code Building
and Energy Code Development Committee. A Certified Building Official, Cobb
has earned recognition as the Tennessee Building Official of the Year.
The ICC is a membership service association that develops building
safety codes used to construct residential and commercial buildings including
housing and schools. ICC also provides technical and educational services
to the construction industry.
Members of the nation’s three leading building safety groups—Building
Officials and Code Administrators, International (BOCA), International
Conference of Building Officials (ICBO) and Southern Building Code Congress
International (SBCCI)—recently voted to combine those three organizations
into the ICC.
The ICC was founded in 1994 as a nonprofit organization dedicated
to developing a single set of comprehensive and coordinated national model
construction codes. More than 97% of U.S. cities, counties and states that
adopt codes choose building and fire codes created by the three building
safety groups that make up the ICC. BOCA, ICBO and SBCCI have more than
190 years of collective experience developing codes. ICC Codes are used
across America and around the world. The development of I-Codes without
regional limitations responds to the needs of the construction industry
and has strong backing from code enforcement officials, architects, engineers,
builders, developers, and building owners and managers.