IAPMO Standards Council Initiates 2003 UPC, UMC Consensus Code Development Project
IAPMO has announced the formal initiation of its new consensus code development process. The newly appointed IAPMO Standards Council has adopted the framework of the process to be utilized in the development of the 2003 editions of the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC) and Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC). Standards Council members include J. Kenneth Richardson, Joseph Brewer, John Fischer, Jr., Mike Gorham, L. Jeffrey Mattern, Ron Ridenour, Edward Saltzberg and J. Richard Wagner.
As its first order of business, the Council approved the Regulations Governing Committee Projects, along with a set of Guidelines for the Conduct of Participants in the IAPMO Codes & Standards Development Process, and a set of IAPMO Technical Meeting Convention Rules. All of these documents are available for download at www.iapmo.org. In addition to these approvals, the Standards Council began the process of classifying all of the Plumbing Code Technical Committee and Mechanical Code Technical Committee applicants into one of the following nine interest group categories: Manufacturer, User, Installer/Maintainer, Labor, Special Expert, Applied Research/Testing Laboratory, Enforcing Authority, Insurance or Consumer.