NEW YORK — The International Code Council (ICC) has reported that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, joined by Department of Building (DOB) Commissioner Patricia Lancaster and City Council Housing and Building Chair Madeline Provenzano, announced that the city will issue an executive order to study the possibility of adopting the International Building Code® (IBC).

According to ICC, New York’s current building code is the largest and most complex in the country and takes up hundreds of pages in the city’s Administrative Code.