{"id":473,"date":"2022-10-26T13:25:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T12:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/building-standards\/?p=473"},"modified":"2023-10-02T11:54:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:54:38","slug":"the-inter-jurisdictional-regulatory-collaboration-committee-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/building-standards\/2022\/10\/26\/the-inter-jurisdictional-regulatory-collaboration-committee-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inter-Jurisdictional Regulatory Collaboration Committee – 25th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blog post by Stephen Garvin, Head of Building Standards Division<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Inter-jurisdictional regulatory collaboration committee, or IRCC for short, celebrates its 25th<\/sup> anniversary this week (24 to 26 October 2022) with a meeting and conference in Bavaria to discuss a range of contemporary subjects relevant to global building safety and trends influencing the future of building regulation.<\/p>\n

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The IRCC is an international forum of building regulation and code authoring bodies (see below) with the purpose of promoting effective international collaboration concerning \u2018best current practice\u2019 building regulatory systems, in particular those that are functional, objective or performance based.\u00a0 The meeting is complemented by a specialist workshop sponsored by the hosts for the meeting, the German Federal Association of Design Review Engineers (BVPI).<\/p>\n

To celebrate the 25th<\/sup> anniversary of the IRCC, a report has been produced showing its origins, history and importantly where it is going next.\u00a0 Details can be found on the IRCC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The report traces the origins of the IRRC to a conference in 1996 that had been held to examine performance-based codes and fire safety design methods.\u00a0 It concluded that whilst there were international forums for the relevant engineering and design communities that there were no such networks that addressed the concerns of regulators and policy makers.\u00a0 As a result the concept of the IRCC was born.<\/p>\n

Founding members such as John Traw and Brian Meacham of the USA have remained active in IRCC for most of the last 25 years and provide valuable underpinning of its purpose and goals.<\/p>\n

The IRCC provides a forum for promoting a common understanding of, and a framework for, building regulatory system development that are objective based and aim to meet societal needs.\u00a0 The pace of development in building regulation systems around the world has never been greater and the IRCC provides an important forum to share experience and learn from each other.\u00a0 Ultimately the development of policy and regulation is for each country to decide, but the international collaboration adds value and an extra dimension.<\/p>\n

Over the coming years, IRCC members have identified the following as expected priority topics in their countries:<\/p>\n