Georgia
Georgia Dept. of Community Affairs (DCA); State Codes Advisory Committee (SCAC)
404-679-4840. The current mandatory codes and links to Georgia Amendments are provided near the bottom of the following page:
https://www.dca.ga.gov/local-government-assistance/construction-codes-industrialized-buildings/construction-codes
Adopted I-Codes:
Applicability (statewide, local, limited): STATEWIDE
State code must be enforced in local jurisdictions.
Mass Timber Adoption
The mass timber provisions went into effect in 2022. The 2022 Georgia Amendments (see link to the webpage, above) to the 2018 IBC is effective January 1, 2022.
Notes:
Georgia has voluntarily adopted “Disaster Resilient Building Construction” Appendices for the IBC and the IRC, which “up” the design for wind, seismic, and flood by adoption more stringent load criteria than the regular code would require for a jurisdiction. They were developed through a federal grant program. The IRC appendix is reliant on the WFCM for different “upped” wind speeds.
Page last updated: March 2026