The International Code Council (ICC) and its family of solutions is an industry leader in performing technical evaluations and inspections of building components, products and materials for code compliance and quality. They are the most widely accepted evaluation agency globally and trusted by building product manufacturers across the country.  ICC’s third party inspection and evaluation reports are crucial in allowing manufacturers to certify that their products meet building code requirements and warrant regulatory approval. 
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In this video interview Offsight Co-Founder, Andrew Xue sits down with ICC’s Vice President, Ryan Colker to discuss why digitization is crucial to inspection. They discuss why technology like Offsight, partnered with product evaluations provided by the ICC Evaluation Service and others and third party plan review and inspection services like those ICC NTA provides, can streamline reporting, auditing and building code compliance, while enabling a level of visibility that’s crucial to helping manufacturers build products more efficiently and instill confidence with owners and developers.
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To start, we’d love to hear about your personal background at ICC. How is the industry changing from your experience? How is Offsite driving that change and how is this effecting 3rd party factory inspections across many building component factories?

Today many building component factories still rely on manual processes like paper travelers and excel spreadsheets to document non-conformance reporting, assembly checks and audits. What are some barriers to digitization that you are seeing today and how do you believe these will be resolved in the future?