Our SBOA 2024 – Fall Conference was held in Melville, SK at the Horizon Credit Union Centre. What a great facility Melville has built, it was an excellent place to host our conference. A huge thank you to our conference host chair Tyrone Mogenson for helping organize and bringing a taste of Melville to the conference as well. The local Wood-Fired Pizza from DLB Catering was excellent. A big thank you to Neil Marsh and the rest of the conference committee for the incredible line-up of presentations and a great tour of the Parkland Fire Training Grounds. With the upcoming Code Change it was timely to have presentations provided from Nick Yu and Hayley Martin from the National Research Council, Laura King from the National Fire Protection Association, Saskatchewan Building and Technical Standards Branch as well as our local presenters.
Lastly, none of our conferences go on smoothly without the continued efforts of our entire Board of Directors. Thank you all for the time and effort you put into this association and working toward the interests of Building Officials throughout the province.
Province of Saskatchewan, Building and Technical Standards Branch – Provincial Challenge Exams {PCE’s) The chief codes administrator Marvin Meickel sent out an email in August related to the phase-out of the Provincial
Challenge Exams. Exams will be phased out as follows:
• Class 1 PCE – no longer offered effective January 1,
2024.
• Class 2 PCE – no longer offered effective January 1,
2025.
• Class 3 PCE – no longer offered effective January 1,
2026.
As noted in the letter that was sent out, the SBOA Certification Exams are readily available as well as the SBOA’s BCTC course for individuals looking to start in the Building Official career or advance their licensing. For more information you can go on line at sboa.sk.ca and go to the certification tab.
Adoption of the 2020 National Building Code, Energy Code and Plumbing Code
As mentioned at the spring conference, SBOA understands the difficulty and importance of a code’s adoption cycle. While many of us are trying to find and understand the specific changes that have taken place and how they may affect our interpretations, others are reviewing proposed legislation changes developing code change brochures and pamphlets to help designers, contractors and owners understand what the new changes hold … And some of us are trying to do all of that. SBOA committed to ensuring that this conference was focused around the 2020 code adoption. And I believe we succeeded in that.
We reached out to NRC, Building and Technical Safety Standards Branch, NFPA, Wood Works and others to provide this information and we are grateful for all of them being here today. In addition to the great work Building Standards continues to do on presentations at our conferences, they are also working on providing code change presentations in November. Following the conference, it was confirmed that the 2020 National Building Code, Energy Code and Plumbing code along with regulation changes would come into affect on January 1, 2024.
Building Code Training for Canadians – 2020 Code Edition Update
SBOA is looking to update the Building Code Training for Canadian’s (BCTC) course. With the 2020 code adoption
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