What are the building codes in Florida?

• The Florida Building Code is developed by the Florida Building Commission utilizing model code provisions as a "template." This means, that the Florida Building Code is a highly amended version of a model building code.
  
  The 2001 Florida Building Code template was the 1999 edition of the legacy Standard Building Code (SBC). (The Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc., consolidated with the International Council of Building Officials and the Building Officials and Code Administrators International to form the International Code Council a few years ago.) But, the model code provisions were greatly amended to incorporate provisions of the legacy South Florida Building Code for Broward County (Fort Lauderdale) and Dade County (Miami) – called High Velocity Hurricane Zones (HVHZ) – and the structural provisions of the 2000 International Building Code. The template was also modified by incorporating various rules of Florida administrative departments, which addressed construction issues, and the personal biases of Commission members.
  
  
  2004 building codes becomes effective October 1st, 2005.
  For more information, visit http://www.floridabuilding.org/