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Update of IBC Chapter 18: 
Beginning in March, 2007, the SEAW Earthquake Engineering Committee (EEC) undertook to update Chapter 18 of the 2006 International Building Code through the development of a series of code change proposals for consideration by the International Code Council (ICC) during their 2007/2008 code development cycle.  Led by co-chairs Mike Valley and Susan Chang, several groups were formed for the effort:  (1) an executive group of EEC members;  (2) structural and geotechnical working groups consisting of practicing design professionals across the country who had expressed an interest in participating;  and (3) a review group of stakeholders, including representatives of BSSC TS3, ACI 318, AISI, NCMA and AF&PA.  The end result was the submittal of 23 code change proposals to the ICC in August, 2007 by NCSEA on behalf of the Committee.  The ICC Structural Code Committee heard the proposals at the ICC Code Development Hearings in February and I am pleased to report that all of them were approved.  The proposals are still subject to public comments, which will be heard at the ICC Final Action Hearings in September.  A composite document of the approved proposals, in color, combining the approved changes together as they will appear in the 2009 IBC (assuming no other changes are approved), has been prepared:

Composite Document: IBC Chapter 18 Code Changes