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Building Safety Month with Galax’s Jimmy Moss

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Virginia Building and Code Officials Association President Jimmy Moss mark Building Safety Month in this conversation with DHCD’s Amanda Love. Broad stakeholder participation marks the ongoing development of the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code (USBC). “It’s not like it’s written by someone and handed down,” says Moss. “We help develop it.”

Then, across Virginia, building departments and code officials use it to help develop safe, sustainable, and affordable communities. “The idea is not for the code to be an obstacle, but the roadmap to where (the customer) wants to be.”  Moss is the City of Galax projects manager.

May is the International Code Council (ICC) Building Safety Month. Safer buildings, safer communities, safer world. #buildingsafety365

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City of Galax has an Innovative Plan to Celebrate Building Safety Month Amid Pandemic

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Faced with business closures, stay-at-home orders and limits on the size of public gatherings due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, building officials have been looking for ways to celebrate Building Safety Month in their jurisdictions while ensuring everyone’s health and safety. For one city in rural Virginia, the solution has been to enlist a tried and true technology that continues to play a central role in the community — radio.

James Moss, project manager for the city of Galax, Va., and president of the Virginia Building and Code Officials Association, is teaming up with the two FM radio stations in town — 96.5 WCGX “The Cat” and 98.1 WBRF — to produce radio spots on the Building Safety Month weekly themes that will air throughout May, and to air a special feature program on building safety.

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