History & Timeline

July 1, 2024: State building codes updated, effective immediately upon signing, codes are listed below: IBC – International Building Code 2024 IEBC – International Existing Building Code 2024 IECC –… Read More »

July 1, 2024: State building codes updated, effective immediately upon signing, codes are listed below: IBC – International Building Code 2021 IEBC – International Existing Building Code 2021 IECC – International Energy Conservation… Read More »

December 13, 2023: During our annual meeting in Manchester, the membership voted on some minor by-laws changes. The changes were marshaled by Vice-President Tim Herlihy. A PDF of the by-laws… Read More »

July 1, 2022: HB 1681 was signed into law which updated the state building codes. The bill was effective immediately upon signing. Links to the relevant codes appear below. IBC… Read More »

2019: The NHBOEF was founded as a 501c3 entity for the purpose of education. The Board for NHBOEF is separate from NHBOA and is registered separately with the IRS and… Read More »

August 7, 2018: House Bill 1472 (HB 1472) went into effect. HB 1472 repealed RSA 155-D, thereby transferring administration of the State energy code from the Public Utilities Commission to… Read More »

2015: NHBOA was named ICC Chapter of the year. Several members (Carrie Cote, Dario Carrara) attended the ICC Annual meeting in Long Beach CA and accepted the award from the… Read More »

December 1, 2014: the NHBOA Email Forum was created by Dario Carrara, using a Google Group. The group is for “Active” members in the code compliance area.

September 2003.   The effort to legislate a state-code building code began at least in the 1980’s and continued, unsuccessfully for about 20 years. Although a legislator was found that… Read More »

November 11, 2000: NHBOA becomes a Chapter of the ICC.