{"id":5950,"date":"2018-10-18T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aroraengineers.com\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2025-04-30T20:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:02:50","slug":"adoption-of-new-electrical-codes-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aroraengineers.com\/adoption-of-new-electrical-codes-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrical Switch: Understanding the Complexity of Adopting New Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"

By:\u00a0James Burris, PE<\/a><\/p>\n

As an engineer, one of your key responsibilities is to know and understand the national, state, and local codes and incorporate them properly into your design. That becomes challenging when jurisdictions recognize building codes that are years and sometimes decades behind the most current versions available. It becomes even more challenging when states and their major cities differ in the building codes that they enforce. This has become the case with the adoption of new electrical codes in both Pennsylvania and Philadelphia this year.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania has finally moved from the 2009 International Building Code (IBC) and the 2008 National Electrical Code (NEC), and has adopted the 2015 IBC (with amendments as developed by the Uniform Construction Code [UCC] Review and Advisory Board).\u00a0 The adoption of the 2015 IBC therefore adopts the 2014 NEC throughout Pennsylvania. All changes went into effect on October 1, 2018.<\/p>\n

Here’s the Twist:<\/h2>\n