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First Modular Standards Aim at Consistency in Design, Construction, Regulation

January 27, 2022

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Salt Lake City adopted the nation’s first two consensus standards that address offsite construction last March, six months in advance of their publication by the International Code Council and the Modular Building Institute. Though ICC and MBI expect other jurisdictions to follow suit, to date there have been no other takers.

“We are in conversations with multiple state agencies that are strongly considering it,” says Tom Hardiman, MBI’s executive director and vice chair of the single committee that produced the aligned documents: ICC/MBI 1200-2021 Standard for Off-Site Construction: Planning, Design, Fabrication and Assembly and ICC/MBI 1205-2021 Standard for Off-Site Construction: Inspection and Regulatory Compliance.

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