WOBO July 2019 Newsletter – Upcoming WOBO Meeting in Las Vegas, October 20-30, 2019

The 2019 meeting of  The World Organization of Building Officials [WOBO] is scheduled to take place at the ICC 2019 Conference in Las Vegas. October 20 – 30, 2019 Please read the entire JULY 2019 WOBO Newsletter (.pdf) for all details.    ...

WOBO Annual General & Board of Governors Meeting November 28 – 30, 2018

WOBO is holding its Annual General and Board of Governors meetings in collaboration with The Building Show at Metro Toronto Convention Centre at Toronto, Ontario, Canada between November 28-30, 2018. ALL MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND....

WOBO Membership Meeting – September 10th 2017

MEMBERSHIP MEETING AGENDA September 10, 2017 – 1 PM- 5 PM – Room 240/241 at the Convention Center   Call to Order: Myers Roll Call: Dabdoub Secretary/Treasurer’s Report: Dabdoub AGENDA ITEMS: MODIFICATIONS-ADDITIONS-DELETIONS TO AGENDA   NEW BUSINESS: Submission of WOBO’s Quadrennial Report to ECOSOC – Channon...

Majed Dabdoub – new Secretary/Treasurer of the World Organization of Building Officials (WOBO).

March 27, 2017 The Board of Governors is pleased to welcome Majed Dabdoub as the new Secretary/Treasurer of the World Organization of Building Officials (WOBO). Majed Dabdoub has more than 30 years of leadership and experience in the fields of structural engineering and code enforcement....

Paul E. Myers – New President of the World Organization of Building Officials (WOBO)

The Board of Governors is pleased to welcome Paul E. Myers as the new President of the World Organization of Building Officials (WOBO). Paul Myers has more than 40 years of leadership and experience in the fields of code enforcement, architecture, and construction. The former...

INTEGRATING SUSTAINABLE BUILDING MEASURES INTO THE BUILDING REGULATORY PROCESS

Introduction Green building, sustainable architecture, and environmentally responsible building are terms we hear when a building is designed and built to reduce energy consumption, improve indoor air quality, and limit environmental impacts. Such designs may cause anxiety for building officials due to non-conventional building techniques...

WORLD ORGANIZATION OF BUILDING OFFICIALS NEW BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING

WOBO Board of Governors Minutes May 2003...

DOCKLANDS PROJECT – MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

BACKGROUND: Due to the change to larger shipping now used for freight the original Melbourne docking facilities were not suitable for modification as the river access could not be dredged to a sufficient depth. New facilities were established at the mouth of the river which...

Transforming Melbourne’s Icon Swimming Pool – Learning from 1981 (world’s first?) performance-based fire safety design

2003 Introduction When Melbourne’s architectural icon swimming pool from its 1956 Olympic Games was converted into a multi-purpose sports centre in 1981, the fire aspects of the renovation were determined from a performance-based design process, rather than from strict adherence to the then current prescriptive...

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