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IAS Newsletter | Fall 2020
IAS’ Role in the Mars
Hope Probe
Raj Nathan Elected to APAC
Executive Committee
Sam Palmer of Clark County Appointed
to IAS Board
Sam Palmer, P.E., CBO, has served as
chairman of the IAS Accreditation Committee for three years. He is a past president
of the Southern Nevada International Code
Council chapter, where he also served as
chairman of the 2019 ICC Las Vegas Annual Business Meeting planning committee.
Palmer is currently the chairman of the Nevada Organization of Building Officials. He
was also chairman of the State of Nevada Board of Professional
Engineers and Land Surveyors and is a Fellow of the American
Society of Civil Engineers.
Raj Nathan, President of the International Accreditation Service (IAS) has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Asia Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (APAC). The Executive Committee functions as a board
of directors and is responsible to the General Assembly for the effective pursuit of APAC objectives, and for
the oversight of the operations and management of APAC. APAC is the regional association of accreditation
bodies in the Asia Pacific region. The Asia Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (APAC) was established on
January 1, 2019 by the amalgamation of two former regional accreditation cooperation’s – the Asia Pacific
Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC) and the Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (PAC).
Raj has been president of IAS since 2018. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, and in other
positions, for IAS where he gained over 20 years of progressive technical and management experience in
conformity assessment and accreditation areas. He led the successful expansion of IAS’ business operations globally. He has served and led international teams to Japan, India, Singapore, etc. on a variety of
global assignments in peer evaluation of the national accreditation systems. Raj holds a Master of Science
in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering from University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Palmer has been the assistant director for the Clark County Department of Building and Fire Prevention in Las Vegas, Nev., since
2013. He was previously the Western Operating Group manager
for Terracon Consultants, Inc.
Congratulations to the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, an
IAS accredited testing laboratory, for launching the Emirates Mars
Mission and Mars Hope Probe. The event marks the first step in
the mission’s 7-month-long journey to gather key science data
about Mars’ atmosphere.
APACs’ primary role is to manage and expand a mutual recognition arrangement (MRA) among accreditation
bodies in the Asia Pacific region to facilitate trade. The MRA facilitates the acceptance of test reports, inspection reports and management systems across the region and with other regions around the world. The
region represents over half of world trade and two-thirds of global human population.
Palmer brings more than 35 years of industry-related knowledge
to his new role as a member of the IAS Board of Directors. IAS
is pleased that Palmer has accepted this appointment as he will
represent the company well and will contribute much to the new
role. IAS is a subsidiary of the International Code Council and part
of the Code Council’s family of solutions.
This APAC mutual recognition and acceptance of conformity assessment reduces the need to undertake
duplicate testing, inspection or certification, thus saving time and money, increasing economic efficiency
and facilitating international trade. APAC has:
Rocco Davis Appointed to California
Transportation Commission
Since 2001, Davis has been vice president and regional manager
of Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA). He
also chairs the LiUNA Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing
Coalition, National Alliance for Fair Contracting, Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust Southwest and International
Accreditation Service. Davis is a trustee of the National Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust Board, the LiUNA
Staff and Affiliates Pension Fund, Laborers’ National Industrial
Pension Fund, Laborers’ National Health and Welfare Fund, Laborers’ Health and Safety Fund of North America, LiUNA Training and
Education Fund, the Service Contract Education and Training Trust
and the Laborers-Employers Benefit Plan Collection Trust.
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APAC’s members include accreditation bodies, accreditation focal points and other organizations that have
an interest in accredited conformity assessment results.
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APAC is recognized by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) as one of four APEC Specialist Regional Bodies (SRBs) that support the work of the APEC Sub-Committee on Standards and Conformance.
Programs to Help Building
Departments Approve:
Building Departments are
Talking about Accreditation
1. Special Inspection Agencies
2. Fabricators
3. Metal Building
Manufacturers
If you have ever wondered why building departments are getting accredited
by IAS, then you will be interested in a series of articles that ran in the International Code Council’s Building Safety Journal. IAS developed the series of
articles about building departments that have been accredited in the Building
Department Accreditation Program. The articles feature interviews with
building officials from twelve accredited departments. The building officials
answer questions about why they decided to pursue accreditation, the challenges of going through the process and how accreditation has helped their
departments.
4. Metal Building Assemblers
5. Testing Laboratories
6. Field Evaluation Bodies
7. Building Department
Service Providers
8. P
roductCertification
Agencies
Learn More about these Valuable Resources!
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Jon Rocco Davis, Chairperson of the IAS
Board of Directors, has been appointed by
California Governor Gavin Newsom to the
California Transportation Commission.
The 13-member California Transportation
Commission (CTC) is responsible for
programming and allocating funds for the
construction of highway, passenger rail,
transit and active transportation improvements throughout California. The Commission also advises and
assists the Secretary of the California State Transportation
Agency and the Legislature in formulating and evaluating state
policies and plans for California’s transportation programs.
47 Full Members across 29 economies that are APAC MRA signatories; 18 Associate Members across 15
economies; and 8 Affiliates across 8 economies.
IAS Fall 2020 Newsletter
IAS accreditation demonstrates that building departments have met the
national standard and are competent to provide public safety services for
their communities. The accreditation is based on IAS Accreditation Criteria
for Building Code Regulatory Agencies and Third-Party Service Providers
(AC251). Getting accredited involves an assessment of the department’s
goals, policies, and procedures, as well as permitting, inspections and plan
reviews.
To read the articles, click here.
www.iasonline.org
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