Who We Are

Founding of the Conference

The International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO) is considered to have been founded in 1922. This antecedent to the modern organization was then known as the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference. The Pacific Coast Conference published the first edition of the Uniform Building Code (UBC) in 1927.

Since 1927 there have been many editions of the Uniform Building Code and it has become the prevalent building code in the United States. The UBC has been translated into many languages and was the basis for the national codes of Japan and Brazil. Publication, maintenance and promotion of the UBC is only one of the functions of ICBO, which is a non-profit service organization owned and controlled by its member cities, counties and states. As of February 1994, there are approximately 18,000 members of ICBO with 2,689 of those being Class A jurisdictional representatives.

The First Chapters

In 1949 the concept of ICBO members forming into affiliated groups, which would foster the goals and principles of the Conference, was realized with the acceptance of four Chapters. The Redwood Empire Chapter was one of those four founding chapters and is formally licensed by ICBO. There are now 82 Chapters. The The Redwood Empire Chapter reincorporated in 2003 as the The Redwood Empire Association of Code Officials.

The Redwood Association of Code Officials

The membership of the Redwood Empire Association of Code Officials is comprised of building department jurisdictional representatives of four northern California counties and a number of cities within those and other counties. Redwood Empire Association of Code Officials is registered with the State of California as a non-profit corporation, as well as being recognized as a federally tax exempt organization.

The profit that the Association seeks is not financial but rather in the betterment of the communities its membership serves.