Welcome to the Southwest Washington Chapter of ICC

SWW-ICC is an ICC chapter that provides support and education to the southwest Washington Region.

About Southwest Washington ICC Chapter

The International Code Council is a nonprofit association that provides a wide range of building safety solutions including product evaluation, accreditation, certification, codification and training. It develops model codes and standards used worldwide to construct safe, sustainable, affordable and resilient structures.

The Southwest Washington Chapter of the International Code Council is dedicated to promoting education, training, knowledge and the sharing of information relating to the administration and application of building codes and related specialty codes in the greater Southwest Washington Region.

Our Mission

News

–The Chapter would like to thank Peter Van Nortwick with Clark County WA for joining us at our last chapter meeting! We certainly learned a lot.

Our next chapter meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 18th. During our last meeting, we entertained nominations for the board, which includes chapter officers and committee chairs. At November’s meeting, we will be holding elections for those positions. A meeting notice should be posted at least a week out.

Also coming up, we are pleased to announce that we will be featuring some Applied Technology Council 20 & 45 next month. This training will be held at the city of Battle Ground’s Community Center. Please be on the lookout for additional information.

— Updated 10/1/26

– Huge shout out to Jeremy Hedges with Entek Corporation for joining our chapter meeting last week and sharing with us what Entek does, some of the challenges they face, and how we can be better partners in this field. His presentation can be found under that chapter meeting info in our Events Calendar.

Also, congratulations to Elijah Nicholas for being nominated and voted in as the chapter’s education committee chair!

Another congratulations are in order for Sherri Williams for being approved to partner with Clark County in her sponsorship to International Code Council’s annual business meeting this fall. She’ll represent both entities well!

Lastly, thanks to the executive board for their hard work in revising the by-laws. Motion carried last week to approve of the final draft.

Please reach out if you’d like to get involved!

–Updated 7/21/26

– Welcome Spring! During our last chapter meeting, we had the pleasure of having Bill Hanes with Maxitrol join us. He provided a lot of valuable information regarding the design, installation, and use of medium pressure gas regulators.

– Since then, we’d like to congratulate Camas’s Brian Smith for being re-elected to WABO’s C&R Committee chair. We would also like to congratulate Vancouver’s new assistant building official, Lauren DiPalma.

– Most recently, we had a successful Front Counter Review class put on by BCS.

– Please join us at our next events, see our Events Calendar for more information.

— Updated 5/5/26

– At our January chapter meeting, Andy Higgins, ICC Director-at-Large, Customer Success Director City of Seattle, was kind enough to join us. Highlight of the meeting was his installation of the new chapter officers. Following the meeting, Andy gave the chapter an update to what his happening at ICC, as well as a brief WABO/SBCC update. Please see the agenda for more information.

– Our next chapter meeting will be Wednesday, March 18.

– The chapter would also like to send our condolences to the family of Jay Ponce, as he passed away last month. Jay was a huge asset to the chapter and the special inspection industry. For many years, Jay taught special inspection classes for us and was one of WABO’s only special inspection consultants. There will be a Celebration of Life for Jay in early February. Please reach out to us if you would like more information.

— Updated 1/22/26