WSD Committee to Present Award at U.S.
Celebration of World Standards Day on November 14
NEW
YORK, May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
Dominic Sims, CEO,
International Code Council (Code Council), has been selected
by the U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day Planning Committee
as the recipient of the prestigious Ronald H. Brown Standards
Leadership Award. Members of the U.S. standards and conformity
assessment community will honor Sims during the U.S. Celebration of
World Standards Day (WSD) on Thursday, November 14,
2024, in Washington,
D.C.
Named for the late U.S. Secretary of Commerce, the
Ronald H. Brown Award honors
demonstrated leadership in promoting the important role of
standardization in eliminating global barriers to trade.
Sims is recognized for his accomplishments and service in
improving the nation's built environment, promoting building safety
through codes and standards, and advancing the use of safety
standards to enhance U.S. global competitiveness and eliminate
global barriers to trade.
Over the course of his career, he has helped to advance programs
and activities that support standards community efforts to raise
awareness of the importance of global standardization to the world
economy and to promote its role in helping to meet the needs of
industry, government, and consumers worldwide. He is also noted as
a supporter of and advocate for the guidance provided by the
United States Standards Strategy, U.S. Conformity
Assessment Principles, and the Executive Order OMB A119.
As the CEO of the Code Council since 2012, Sims has led a number
of initiatives to attract young professionals into the building and
safety codes and standards community, including through Safety 2.0,
several scholarship programs that support code professionals, as
well as a program that supports the integration of lessons about
codes and standards with vocational schools. The Code Council has
also launched donations of materials to universities and high
schools teaching standardization, and Sims' senior staff have
collaborated with universities in the development of courses on the
U.S standardization system.
Active in the building safety field since 1983, Sims' career
spans both public- and private-sector experience. He has served as
Councilman and vice mayor of the town of Jupiter, Florida, and executive director of
the Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning and Building Department. He
has also served on various White House panels, including Judge
Alice Hill's summit on resilient
building codes, and on federal agency panels covering issues
ranging from seismic safety, water quality, manufactured housing,
energy, and resilience, to sustainability, fire, and life
safety.
Prior to his work with the Code Council, Sims was CEO of the
Southern Building Code Congress International (SBCCI). There, he
guided SBCCI's consolidation between regional organizations that
ultimately formed the Code Council in 2003. He also served on the
boards of SBCCI and the National Institute of Building Sciences. He
currently serves on the board of directors of the Federal Alliance
for Safe Homes (FLASH), a consumer advocate group that focuses on
strengthening homes and safeguarding families from natural and
manmade disasters, as well as on the board of the International
Building Quality Center. He also participates in the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI) National Policy Advisory Group
(NPAG).
About World Standards Day
Celebrated annually, World Standards Day pays tribute to the
thousands of volunteers around the world who participate in
standardization activities, and helps to raise awareness of the
role that standards play in addressing national and global
priorities. The event has been held since 1970 and is recognized in
nations around the globe.
The U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day is an annual event
that honors the U.S. standards and conformity assessment community
and recognizes its efforts to promote American competitiveness in a
global marketplace, safeguard the environment, and improve the
quality of life for workers and consumers around the world. U.S.
activities are organized annually by a planning committee
consisting of representatives from across the standards and
conformity assessment community. The National Institute of Building
Sciences (NIBS) is serving as the administrating organization in
2024.
WSD 2024 Theme: Shared Vision for a Better World: Standards
for the Changing Climate
The 2024 U.S. Celebration of World Standards
Day theme, Shared Vision for a Better World: Standards for
the Changing Climate, recognizes how collaboration is the key
to achieving shared goals. The U.S. standardization system has the
greatest impact when all stakeholders work together. Particularly,
as our climate continues to change, the standards community and the
whole of the built environment must be resilient and ready to face
the challenges ahead.
More information about the U.S. Celebration of World Standards
Day is available at www.wsd-us.org.
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