From: Corey Roblee
[croblee@iccsafe.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 21,
2011 12:11 PM
To: Corey Roblee
Subject: ICC eNews | December 21,
2011
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Corey M. Roblee
Senior Regional Manager, Government Relations
International Code Council, Inc.
333 E. Royal Forest Blvd.
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Development Review Specialist Named Town Employee of the Year |
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Debby Morakis (left), a development review specialist with the
Planning, Zoning and Building Department of Palm Beach, was named the 2011 Town Employee of the Year. She was
presented with an engraved plaque, a check for $3,500 and a toy version of
the truck she commutes to work in. |
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Conference Group Photos Available for Download |
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From Alabama to Wyoming, and all those states in between,
photographs of delegates taken during the 2011 Annual Conference in Phoenix are now available online. Also included are international
delegations from Australia, Canada, Japan and the Cayman Islands, as well as
the Code Council's Master Code Professionals and Honorary Members. |
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Government Relations Highlights — December |
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The Code Council Government Relations (GR) department has been busy over the past month. In addition to hosting the GR Forum, several Cracker Barrel tables, staffing three membership councils, and the Major Jurisdictions Committee in Phoenix, read the GRapevine for more highlights. |
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ICC's IgCC Aims to Make Saving Water and Energy Easy |
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The International Code Council finalized the International Green Construction Code (IgCC) and is readying it for publication by Spring of 2012. The code includes many water- and energy-saving features that will be familiar with anyone who has followed other green codes, standards and programs. It also has provisions intended to make the code simple to follow without performing calculations. |
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ICC-ES PMG First to Receive City of L.A. Recognition under New Guidelines |
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The city of Los Angeles approved the ICC Evaluation Service (ICC-ES) Plumbing, Mechanical and Fuel Gas (PMG) Listing Program as the first certification agency recognized under its new guidelines (reference number LAMC 98.502). |
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ICC-ES PMG Receives Transitional Approval to Certify Weather-Based Irrigation Controllers |
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Greensboro First NC City to Achieve IAS Building Department Accreditation |
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The City of Greensboro, North Carolina, Development Services Division is the first jurisdiction in the state to achieve accreditation of its building department by the International Accreditation Service (IAS). A subsidiary of the International Code Council, IAS provides an independent assessment and verification that the department is operating at the highest legal, ethical, and technical standards. Click to continue. |
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Code of Honor Scholarship Winner: Networking Key to Expanding Horizons |
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To say that Valarie Loper was excited at the prospect of attending the International Code Council's Annual Conference this year in Phoenix was an understatement. Loper, Combination Inspector for the City of North Las Vegas and soon-to-be first vice president of the ICC’s Southern Nevada Chapter, noticed the Code Council Foundation again was offering Code of Honor Scholarships. As badly as she wanted to attend the Annual Conference, she didn’t want to impose on her Chapter, suffering like most through several years of a harsh economy. Click to continue. |
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