The Firestop Contractors International Association collaborated with ASHE, The Joint Commission and UL to build the 1.5 day Barrier Management Symposium now offered at ASHE Regions.
Michael Wich, the director of building code administration and chief building official for the South Central Planning and Development Commission in Houma, La., has been appointed to the International Code Council Board of Directors.
EIMA has joined with its industry allies in protesting the manner in which a report of Underwriters Laboratories has been allowed be used as the basis for a code change that would essentially ban the use of foam insulation for EIFS and other exterior wall cladding such as vinyl siding.
In that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is projecting that by the year 2020 a staggering 74 percent of all new labor force growth will be Hispanic, it’s important to know the best places to recruit them.
