Building Codes and Standards

This replaced Florida’s patchwork of codes and regulations that were developed, amended, administered and enforced by more than 400 local jurisdictions and state agencies with building code regulation responsibilities. The current Code is a single statewide code based on national model codes and consensus standards, amended for Florida specific needs for the design and construction of buildings. The Code is designed to make the local building process more efficient, increase accountability, bring new and safer products to the market, increase consumer confidence, and better protect the residents of this natural-disaster prone state.

It provides an optional statewide approval for eight identified building envelope and structural frame products (panel walls, exterior doors, roofing products, skylights, windows, shutters, structural components, Impact Protective Systems) that are intended to be replicated during the manufacturing process. The Product Approval System, in coordination with the Florida Building Code, ensures safe product technologies are used in building construction and encourages development of new products and technologies that increase safety or meet safety requirements less expensively.

The program insures structures built in a manufacturing facility are in compliance with the Florida Building Code. The primary benefits of modular buildings are fast delivery, ease of relocation, low-cost reconfiguration and flexibility. Site work can occur while the modular is being constructed in the plant, resulting in earlier building occupancy and reduced labor, financing, and supervision costs.