Your Code Cabinet needs your input now! We encouraged you to read through the highlights of some of the noted code items that may well affect our industry. Over the last few weeks, your association has asked you to take the time to give your input and feedback so Glenn Mathewson, NADRA Technical Advisor, is positioned to represent the interests of the membership, not just what a few feel are the issues, but rather the majority of the membership feel.

Below is Glenn's letter requesting your input and feedback, he has poured over hundreds of code proposals and provided you with the highlights of twenty or so proposals that can affect our industry. Now is the time to speak up and be heard. STOP and take the time to send in your input, as a professional in this industry NADRA has risen to provide you with a voice that can and will help shape these codes.

Please don't sit on the sideline and then Monday-morning-quarterback after the fact....take the time, review these highlights and give your input and suggestions in the survey provided below before it's too late.

Whether  it is on one or a dozen items, even if you simply state you feel the Association is on the right track and you agree, please just stop and take a moment to review the info that can and will affect your livelihoods.  

Your technical advisor and chair of the Code Cabinet is doing an amazing job. He is doing it far short of the financial support it has taken to prepare for these hearings. Lets show the code committee our support.

Some of your fellow NADRA members have expressed the desire to support this effort regarding the work in Code. We encourage you to follow their lead and support these efforts as well, any funds received will help provide the cabinet with much needed support.

Contact NADRA HQ to make a commitment today.  Call 215.679.4884 or email Info@NADRA.org subject line: "Code Commitment".!

NADRA, "Doing things for the right reasons ..."

Michael Beaudry

My hands have gotten soft, my back weaker, and my skin...not so tan.  I haven't built a deck for someone else since 2009 or full-time since 2004...I'm not a deck builder anymore.  Now I just try to educate and support builders about building codes.  When I moved my career to codes, I still held on to the decking industry.  I like decks.  I like unique and exciting decks built of creative materials in a thriving market.  Why does this matter?  Why am I telling you this rhetoric?

Because in two weeks I will be standing in front of the future of the decking industry as the only voice for the industry at large, and the only voice for deck builders.  In front of the attendance and committee at the International Code Council's Group B Hearings for the development of the 2015 International Residential Code.  2015 is a long way away...I know.  But for the IRC is NOW, and I will be there.  For builders, for lumberyards, for decking and railing manufacturers...for future deck owners.  I will be there.  I will be ahead of the train of regulation and standardization that's on it's way to you.  I wonder though...

...Are you with me?  I have heard your stories, your frustrations and your anger about codes, old and new, for many years.  I still have a memory of being in the shoes of a deck builder, but lateral loads and such weren't an issue back then.  Do I understand the plight of today's builder enough to speak for them at the hearing?  Do you trust me to do so, or do you have anything else to tell me first?

Now is the time.  Now is the time to stand and make a difference.  I am standing.  Stand with me and give me your support.  Give me your ideas.  Tell me that while I may not be a deck builder anymore that I carry your flag as a builder.  What about the other professionals in the decking industry...help me speak for you too.  Give me confidence and prepare me to understand and share your experiences and ideas regarding code where it actually meets our neighbor's backyards.

I have identified the topics that should matter to you.  I hope they do.  They are your future.  I've highlighted a handful of them and explained my position.  Beyond that, there is a list of others that may need further review.  Have a look.  See the possibilities for your future, and then speak up.  "Tomorrow"...will be too late.

Click HERE to read the topics that affect you, along with my own notes to help you understand them. Once you have done that, please come back to this page to take the Survey. 

Click here to take the Survey

Sincerely,

Glenn Mathewson

NADRA Technical Advisor