{"id":13655,"date":"2018-05-02T23:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=13655"},"modified":"2018-05-02T19:57:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T00:57:51","slug":"state-fire-marshals-office-promotes-may-as-building-safety-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2018\/05\/02\/state-fire-marshals-office-promotes-may-as-building-safety-month\/","title":{"rendered":"State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office Promotes May as Building Safety Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Campaign Brings Awareness to Life-Saving Capabilities of Building Codes<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"TennesseeNashville, TN<\/strong> – As the prevalence of new construction continues to increase across the Volunteer State, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has declared May 2018 as Building Safety Month<\/a> to increase public awareness of the critical role building codes play in ensuring fire and life safety.<\/p>\n

The International Code Council<\/a> (ICC) created Building Safety Month 38 years ago to reinforce the importance of code adoption and celebrate the victories of building codes in saving lives during disasters. The Tennessee State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office (SFMO) is proud to join Governor Haslam and the ICC in promoting the annual campaign.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe importance of building codes cannot be overstated,\u201d said State Fire Marshal and Tennessee Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak. \u201cEnsuring that buildings are constructed to code helps to limit the risk of death, injury, and property damage. Our team of fire prevention experts work closely with homebuilders, contractors, and other construction industry trades to ensure Tennesseans are provided with the highest level of public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

Codes officials in a variety of departments\u2014building, fire, planning, and elsewhere\u2014work hard to ensure buildings are constructed safely. Building Safety Month aims to bring recognition to the work of these professionals as they create safe, resilient, affordable, and energy efficient places for Tennesseans to live, work, learn, worship and play. \u201cFire inspectors with the State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office have public safety as their No. 1 priority,\u201d said McPeak. \u201cTheir hard work ensures the SFMO is fulfilling its mission of protecting consumers by reducing loss of life and property due to fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2017, the SFMO completed 2,902 inspections of residential structures, issued 124,431 electrical permits, reviewed 879 building plans, and conducted 13,702 inspections of state buildings, commercial occupancies, high hazard buildings, jails, malls, and assembly spaces.<\/p>\n

Building codes address all aspects of construction, including fire prevention, structural integrity, and energy efficiency, to name a few. Because these structures are being built with such resiliency, the risk of property damage is reduced which may provide property owners with lower insurance costs and save millions of taxpayer dollars in the wake of natural disasters.<\/p>\n

The theme for Building Safety Month 2018 is \u201cBuilding Codes Save Lives\u201d, which brings awareness to the life-saving impact building codes have when disasters strike. The five-week-long campaign has weekly themes that showcase the importance of partnering with code officials, advancing communities through science, and technology and protecting communities from disasters.<\/p>\n

One of the most effective ways to reduce the loss of property and life in fires is to use a fire sprinkler system. Fire sprinkler systems can limit heat, flames, and smoke until the fire department arrives on scene.<\/p>\n

For more information on Building Safety Month, visit the International Code Council\u2019s website: http:\/\/www.iccsafe.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information on home fire sprinklers, visit the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition\u2019s website: www.homefiresprinkler.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information on home fire sprinklers, visit the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition\u2019s website: www.homefiresprinkler.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Campaign Brings Awareness to Life-Saving Capabilities of Building Codes Nashville, TN – As the prevalence of new construction continues to increase across the Volunteer State, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has declared May 2018 as Building Safety Month to increase public awareness of the critical role building codes play in ensuring fire and life safety. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[3359,12063,2958,284,9936,2288,3350,7212],"class_list":["post-13655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-bill-haslam","tag-building-safety-month","tag-julie-mix-mcpeak","tag-nashville-tn","tag-sfmo","tag-tennessee-department-of-commerce-and-insurance","tag-tennessee-governor","tag-tennessee-state-fire-marshals-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13656,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13655\/revisions\/13656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}