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CBOA will be offering a special meeting on On Wednesday January 11, 2012, CBOA will be hosting a Special Program on Disaster Management presented by The International Code Council.

Disaster Management for Code Officials

With special emphasis on field inspections and classifying building damage

Presenting the lecturer will be ICC instructor Christopher Laux AIA

It will be an all day meeting/program (6ceu’s) at the Aqua Turf 1-860-621-9337

Please note the date is the second Wednesday of January, not the third Thursday of the month.

The Structural Engineers Coalition of Connecticut (SEC-CT) would like to understand the regional industry’s standard practice as it relates to the inspection of wood and light gauge framing components that are subjected to live loads, component and cladding wind loads, wind-force-resisting-system loads, or seismic-force-resisting-system loads. Your feedback will help SEC-CT to understand whether any code modifications to align expectations with standard practice are necessary for the upcoming CT Building Code edition. Results of this survey will be posted on the SEC website.

The Eastern States Building Officials Federation is preparing to offer its’ 60th year of educational opportunities to Code Enforcement Officials, and those who are in related professions dealing with the built environment. This year’s Annual Eastern States Building Officials Federation Conference/School will be held March 29th thru April 1st, 2009 at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH.

...those pools from big box stores are popping up everywhere again this year. I have a form letter that’s addressed to ‘resident’ which so far has gotten positive results. There’s always the angry resident who acts like I’m the one that put it in for him and I should be the one getting him/her the fence and putting it up, before the big weekend party. I lean towards the convincing, rather than the threatening route to start off with, warning them of the dangers along with the legal ramifications and giving them a deadline to get things in order, explaining what’s available at our office.