Building Codes Assistance Project

After beginning to the process to adopt the 2006 IECC during the current update cycle, an introductory meeting was held on November 6, 2008 by the Montana Building Codes Bureau to ask members of the building codes community about restarting to the process to instead adopt the 2009 IECC. The initial reaction from the participants (including the Montana Building Industry, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, code officials, builders, a state representative from Missoula, the state Department of Environmental Equality, NEEA, and NAIMA) was uniformly supportive of pursuing adoption of the 2009 IECC.

The outcome of the meeting has been to begin the adoption process with further discussion and meetings to address the prospects of adopting an even more efficient code than the 2009 IECC. The Building Codes Bureau will start to move forward once the International Codes Council publishes the 2009 I-Codes in March 2009. The update process generally takes six months from this point, so an effective date of early fall 2009 would be anticipated should the codes council adopt the 2009 IECC.

For more Montana code status information, please consult the BCAP Montana Code Status page.