IBC

1. international business company.

Example Sentences

If you wanted to build three or four units, however, you were working under the IBC, or International Building Code, which governs the construction of everything from a three-flat to a commercial skyscraper.

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The IBC—which, contrary to the name, is a mostly American institution—has recently come under fire as a hidden force shaping architecture and driving up housing costs in U.S. cities.

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Kingston’s view is that the costs of the higher-caliber IBC go well beyond a second staircase.

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Many architects and engineers in the sprawling Dallas area, he noted, don’t even work with the IBC.

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Later this spring, the International Code Council, which writes the IBC and IRC, will consider including triplexes and quadplexes in the residential code—meaning that some of the changes in Dallas could go nationwide in a few years.

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