Kimberly is a Senior Staff Architect in Technical Services with the International Code Council (ICC). Her experience with ICC includes work in the plan review and code development departments with responsibilities for code development, providing code interpretations, instructing technical seminars, and authoring and reviewing instruction materials, code commentary, and publication articles. Kimberly serves as code development secretariat for the Means of Egress/Accessibility committees for IBC and IRC Building committees for the I-codes. She is ICC representative for development of the referenced technical standard, ICC A117.1 “Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities.” Kimberly is the staff secretariat for the ICC Health Care Committee (HCC) and the Building Code Action Committee (BCAC). She is also secretariat for the following standards: ICC A118 -Acoustics Accessibility, ICC 300 - Bleachers, Folding and Telescopic Seating and Grandstands, and the ICC 500 - Design and Construction of Storm Shelters.
Courses
2026 ICC A117.1 Significant Changes
Thursday, July 16, 2026 | 3-4:30pm ET
This seminar offers coverage of the important changes from the 2017 to the 2026 ICC A117.1 Accessibility Standard. The seminar identifies important changes in organization, accessibility standard requirements, and the applicability of these requirements to design, plan review, and inspection. This high-level overview will assist building officials, fire officials, plans examiners, inspectors, design professionals, contractors, and others in the design and construction industry in identifying the specific changes and the reasons for the changes. The goal of this seminar is to familiarize building officials, fire officials, plans examiners, inspectors, design professionals, contractors, and others in the design and construction industry with many of the important changes in the latest accessibility and usability standard.