ICC-ES Approves Revisions to AC-39-Walking Deck Criteriea. Should Increase Their Revenues, While Confusing Consumers

I think the new AC-39 walking deck criteriea will open up a lot of confusion amongst consumers, Building Officials and enable some to manipulate their report...

ICC-ES Evaluation Committee Highlights

The ICC-ES Evaluation Committee met February 2-4 in Los Angeles to consider new proposed acceptance criteria for alternate products and for products where additional clarification is needed in the code; and for existing criteria that need to be revised to reflect current code, updated standards or changes to products. Twenty-two separate items were considered, with 18 being approved and eight held for further study.


AC39 — Acceptance Criteria for Walking Decks. Revisions were approved to address the 2009 International Codes, to provide requirements for walking decks that are not used as roof coverings and to provide requirements for walking decks used with nonclassified roof coverings.

For more information about the items considered, click here.