Tuesday AM/PM - Session focuses on those elements of buildings that are required to be fire-resistance-rated due to other provisions of the code. Based on the International Building Code® (IBC®), provisions applicable to all of the occupancies and construction types will be addressed. The seminar is applicable to all aspects of the regulatory/design/construction community, including building officials, fire officials, plans examiners, inspectors, design professionals and contractors. Major topics include: Required fire-resistance-rated construction in the IBC, Resources to Verify Fire-resistance-rated Construction, Fire walls, Fire Barriers and Fire Partitions, Horizontal Assemblies, Shaft Enclosures, Fire Doors and Fire Windows, Penetrations and Joints, Fire Dampers and Smoke Dampers, Fire-blocking and Draft-stopping.

Instructor:

Bill Clayton – Shums Coda Associates
William Clayton, CBO is a consultant with Shums Coda Associates. He currently holds 20 certifications including ICBO, ICC, FEMA Emergency Management Institute certifications, Firestop Council Firestop Inspector, State of Colorado 3rd party Public School Inspector, and State of California Safety Assessment Inspector. Bill’s experience ranges from being a builder designer/builder for 17 years to becoming a roofing inspector at Pikes Peak Regional Building Department that led to various Building and Mechanical/Plumbing certifications and being a combo inspector for the City of Westminster, CO. In 1997 he became the Senior Plans Examiner for the City of Westminster, Colorado. Bill was hired as the CBO of Lakewood, CO in 2007 and kept that position until hired away by Steve Thomas of Colorado Code Consulting in 2015. He has worked with CCC for 6+ years as a plan analyst, inspector, instructor, and code consultant. Bill served as a member of the ICC IEBC code committee from 2008 to 2014 during the development of the 2009 and 2012 IEBC, and recently has been appointed to the 2024 committee. He later became a member of the IBC General Committee for the 2015 code cycle. Bill is involved in the local ICC chapter code change committee and remains passionate about instructing and consulting work.