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TRD submits to code revision proposals to the ICC
April 1st, 2018
Proposed changes to codes governing tent installations will be taken up at the April ICC Committee Action Hearing. IFAI’s Tent Rental Division (TRD) submitted two proposals for changes in codes that relate to tent installation as part of the Group A I-Code Development Cycle for the 2021 Model Code. Code proposals were due to the […]
Beginning the code revision discussion
August 1st, 2017
The Fire Code Action Committee (F-CAC) of the International Code Council (ICC) convened in late May in Chicago in the first of three meetings scheduled for 2017 to begin the 2021 code revision cycle for Group A. IFAI Tent Rental Division (TRD) Steering Committee members Linc Aldershof of Verseidag Seemee U.S., Randolph, N.J., and Tom […]
ICC to revise codes
June 1st, 2017
A reorganization by the International Code Council (ICC) of its groups that develop model codes will result in the next round of code revisions for the tent industry being moved up by one year. The ICC uses a three-year cycle for developing model codes, and most codes that govern tents and temporary membrane structures fall […]
Tent codes face scrutiny
November 23rd, 2015
Group A building code proposal passes Public Comment Hearing with modifications. A proposal to the International Code Council’s International Building Code (IBC) that affects the tent industry passed in the Public Comment Hearing (PCH) in October, with final results in December. The original proposal to the 2018 Model Code would have resulted in many tent […]