2012 IRC FULL
The Appeals Board recommendation to reject the appeal was later affirmed by a unanimous vote of the full ICC Board of Directors.įollowing the final decision on NAHB’s appeal, Ronny Coleman, President of the IRC Fire Sprinkler Coalition commented, “This is truly a great day in the history of fire safety. The rejection was based on a finding that ICC’s policies, procedures and bylaws had all been properly followed. At the hearing, all interested parties were given an opportunity to testify, and after considering all information presented, the Appeals Board voted unanimously to reject NAHB’s appeal. In response to the appeal, ICC convened its Appeals Board, which conducted a public hearing on the matter. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) appealed the adoption of Proposals RB64 and RB66, claiming that procedural irregularities influenced the vote on these items. The first proposal, RB66, which was submitted by a major multifamily builder, added the requirement for fire sprinklers in townhouses, and the second proposal, RB64, added the requirement for one- and two-family dwellings.
2012 IRC CODE
Voting took place at ICC’s final action hearing in Minneapolis, MN, where ICC’s members passed two proposals to modify the International Residential Code (IRC). On September 21st, 2008, members of the leading building code body in the nation, the International Code Council (ICC), voted overwhelmingly to support the inclusion of residential fire sprinklers as a standard feature in all new homes ( Press Release). SeptemICC Membership Supports Home Fire Sprinklers More than 1,000 ICC members in attendance voted overwhelmingly to affirm the RBCC’™s decision to keep fire sprinklers in the IRC. Not only did the RBCC reject this request, but the vote to reject was by a margin of 7 to 4, with every member of the committee, other than the four who are appointed by NAHB, voting to uphold the fire sprinkler requirement.įollowing the RBCC vote, NAHB attempted to use a new procedure in the ICC process allowing members assembled at the hearing to overrule the committee decision, but the members made it clear that they were standing firm on protecting American families from fire. Following passage of the sprinkler requirement in 2008 for inclusion in the 2009 edition of the IRC, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) had sought to have the sprinkler requirement repealed in the 2012 edition. October 2009 ICC Code Develpment Committee and Members Uphold IRC Fire Sprinkler RequirementsĪt ICC’s October 2009 Hearing, members of the International Code Council’s Residential Building Code Committee (RBCC) and the ICC general membership made it clear that fire sprinklers are destined to become a standard feature in all new homes (Press Release). In the latter vote, EVERY member of the code development committee, other than the four who were appointed by the National Association of Home Builders, voted in favor of residential sprinklers, and that vote was then ratified by a vote of ICC members in attendance at the hearing. That action was upheld on appeal and was then reaffirmed last year by the ICC code development committee that oversees the IRC. Those requirements were extended to single family homes in 2006 via an optional IRC appendix, and in 2008, ICC members approved fire sprinklers as a standard feature to be included in all new homes. ICC’s legacy organizations began requiring fire sprinklers in multifamily occupancies in the 1980s. ICC’s membership has spoken very clearly on the issue of residential fire sprinklers, implementing requirements using a gradual and measured approach over a period of more than 20 years. Instead, proposals to rescind sprinkler requirements from the IRC were automatically disapproved, without discussion, as part of a consent agenda. Accordingly, under ICC regulations, requirements for residential sprinklers were not subject to debate at ICC’s final action hearing in Dallas in May. No public comments challenging code requirements for residential fire sprinklers were filed for consideration at the ICC Final Action Hearing in Dallas, TX. May 2010 International Residential Code 2012 Edition Retains Fire Sprinkler Requirement for New Homes Having continued in five editions of the IRC, it is clear that the nationally recognized standard of care for new home construction includes providing a home fire sprinkler system. Three complete additional code cycles have been completed since the 2012 IRC was published, and the IRC has continued to retain the fire sprinkler requirement for new homes despite numerous proposals seeking to have the requirement removed. Today International Residential Code 2015, 20 Editions Continue to Retain Fire Sprinkler Requirement for New Homes
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