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    Performance-based building codes: US & Canada orgs

    In 1994, the model building code organizations in the United States formed a new national organization called the International Code Council (ICC) to develop a single building code for the United States. The ICC Performance Code for Buildings and Facilities is scheduled for publication later this year and will be available for Internet download at www.intlcode.org.

    In Canada, where it is called an objective-based building code; this is scheduled for publication in 2003.

    The European Commission (EC) has developed the ECE Compendium of Model Provisions for Building Regulations (23) to provide guidance to EC countries that would like to develop performance-based codes.

    23. United Nations. 1996. ECE compendium of model provisions for building regulations - Buildings. ECE/HBP/81/Rev.1. Economic Commission for Europe, United Nations, New York and Geneva. 72 pp.

    Source: Foliente, G. C., 2000, Developments in performance-based building codes and standards



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