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Building Codes and Regulations

DOE Building Energy Codes Program

DOE's Building Energy Codes Program is an information resource on national model energy codes. They work with other government agencies, state and local jurisdictions, national code organizations, and industry to promote stronger building energy codes and help states adopt, implement, and enforce those codes.
- United States Department of Energy

Federal Building Energy Codes
Compliance Tools

International Code Council (ICC)

The International Code Council (ICC) was established in 1994 as a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing a single set of comprehensive and coordinated national model construction codes. The founders of the ICC are Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc. (BOCA), International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO), and Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc. (SBCCI).

National Fire Protection Association Research Foundation (NFPA)

The mission of the international nonprofit NFPA is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.

Underwriters Laboratories

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) is an independent, not-for-profit product-safety testing and certification organization founded in 1894.

Online Tools

The architect's portable handbook : first-step rules of thumb for building design - 3rd ed.

Guthrie, Pat
NA2750.G87 2003 - Reference Collection -
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library - 111 Stuckeman

The architect's studio companion : rules of thumb for preliminary design - 4th ed.

Allen, Edward
NA2750.A556 2007 - Reference Collection -
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library - 111 Stuckeman

Building codes illustrated : a guide to understanding the 2006 international building code - 2nd ed.

Ching, Frank
TH420.C49 2007 - Reference Collection -
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library - 111 Stuckeman

The codes guidebook for interiors - 2nd ed.

Harmon, Sharon Koomen
KF5701.H37 2001 - Reference Collection -
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library - 111 Stuckeman

Cracking the codes : an architect's guide to building regulations

Yatt, Barry D.
KF5701.Y38 1998 - Reference Collection -
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library - 111 Stuckeman

Illustrated 2006 Building Code Handbook

Patterson, Terry L.
TH420.P38 2007 - Reference Collection -
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library - 111 Stuckeman

International Building Code - 2006

International Code Council
K3538.A15I5 2006 - Reference Collection -
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library - 111 Stuckeman

International energy conservation code - 2003 - 2nd ed.

International Code Council
K3538.I5835 2003 - Reference Collection -
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library - 111 Stuckeman

International existing building code - 2003 - 2nd ed.

International Code Council
K3538.A15I57 2003 - Reference Collection -
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library - 111 Stuckeman

International fire code - 2003 - 2nd ed.

International Code Council
K4180.F57I58 2003 - Reference Collection -
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library - 111 Stuckeman

International property maintenance code - 2003 - 2nd ed.

International Code Council
K3538.I5847 2003 - Reference Collection -
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library - 111 Stuckeman

International residential code for one- and two-family dwellings - 2003 - 2nd ed.

International Code Council
K3538.A15I587 2003 - Reference Collection -
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library - 111 Stuckeman

International zoning code - 2003 - 2nd ed.

International Code Council
K3534.I58 2003 - Reference Collection -
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library - 111 Stuckeman