Help spread the word of our wonderful industry. Contact your local schools to see if they offer Career Day events and offer to be a speaker. From elementary and up you can provide information about Building Inspections. Makes presentations at your local town hall meetings, HOA meetings and other community events.
Links below contain promotional information to handout. There are two kids activity books. You can order items from ICC such as pencils and Junior Inspector Badges. Purchase plastic hard hats or rulers and label with your jurisdiction's name. Have the students build a house, provide a copy of basic plans for them to see. Make an origami house and decorate it. Read to children at a local library. Google "building construction books for kids" and you find a lot of great stories.
NCTCOG's Regional Codes Coordinating Committee (RCCC) and its four advisory boards conducted multiple meetings to review the latest editions of the model codes to develop regional amendments. Their review and recommendations are endorsed by NCTCOG's Executive Board. Currently NCTCOG encourages jurisdictions in North Central Texas to adopt the following model construction codes along with their respective regional amendments as expeditiously as their local code adoption process will allow.
2015 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) NCTCOG Amendments were developed prior to the passage of House Bill 1736. Please note that effective September 1, 2016, there are 3 recommended amendments to the IECC that are deemed to be less stringent than the residential provisions of the code which will be the statewide minimum. Those code sections are the amendments to Table R402.1.2, Table R402.1.4 and Section R402.4.1.2 should not be considered a recommended amendment.