Next Meeting

Wellington, New Zealand
10-12 April 2008

IRCC is an international building regulatory collaboration committee, it is an unaffiliated committee of eleven of the lead building regulatory agencies and organisations of ten countries:

The Australian Building Codes Board, Australia (ABCB)
The Austrian Institute of Construction Engineering (AICE)
The The Department of Building and Housing, New Zealand (DBH)
The Department of Communities & Local Government, England (DCLG)
The International Code Council, USA (ICC)
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Japan (MLIT)
The Ministry of Public Works (Minsterio De Fomento), Spain
The National Institute of Land Infrastructure and Management, Japan (NILIM)
The National Office of Building Technology and Administration, Norway (NBTA)
The National Research Council, Canada (NRCC)
The Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA)

The IRCC was formed as a means to facilitate international discussion on questions such as sustainability. Its purpose is to work internationally, producing documents on the development, implementation and support of construction-related, performance-based regulatory systems, with a focus on identifying public policies, regulatory infrastructure, education and technology issues for implementing and managing these systems. A principal aim of the IRCC is to foster a common understanding of the international regulatory environment, while also promoting the global exchange of information and a more open environment of inter-jurisdictional commerce in building design and construction