IBC Chapter 17 — Special Inspections and Tests

Updated Mar 26, 2026

Third-party inspections for steel, concrete, masonry, soils, fireproofing. Statement of special inspections.

IBC Ch17: steel (bolted connections, welding per AWS D1.1), concrete (placement per ACI 318, cylinder breaks), masonry (grout, prism testing), soils (compaction, pile installation), fireproofing thickness. Fabricator qualifications: AISC for steel, PCI for precast.

TAGS

IBC special-inspections testing structural QA

DETAILS

code year

2024

code section

Chapter 17

SOURCES

🔗https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IBC2021P2

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