Alabama uses another model code in place of the IECC commercial

Record of adoption

In force since

Jul 1, 2022

Legal citation

Ala. Admin. Code ch. 355-12-1 (per DCM bulletin); DCM Manual of Procedures ch. 2

Adopted by

Division of Construction Management (DCM) for state-building scope; statewide commercial energy code authority moved to Alabama Licensing Board for General Contractors effective Oct 1, 2024

Second reading

Agreed Oct 19, 2026

Applies

Based on another model code

Uses ASHRAE 90.1, not the IECC. A proposed Alabama Commercial Energy Code was due to the General Contractors Board by Dec 31, 2025 (per DCM page).

Exceptions

• DCM scope is state-owned or state-funded work, K-12 and postsecondary schools, hotels/motels and movie theaters
• DOE reports ASHRAE 90.1-2013 as mandatory statewide from Jan 1, 2016

Coming next

• Edition not knownPartial
  No date yetIn developmentAla. Code 34-8-51 through 34-8-55

  Statute creates a Commercial Energy Code Advisory Committee and a process to propose, review, and publish the code.

How Alabama adopts the IECC commercial

• More than one path
• A recent law changed the process
• The legislature sets the update schedule

Act 2024-443 moved commercial energy code adoption from ADECA to the Alabama Licensing Board for General Contractors, with an Advisory Committee proposing a code. DCM separately keeps ASHRAE 90.1 in the State Building Code for its own buildings.

Cycle. unknown

Laws, rulings, and other actions

1. Oct 1, 2024Legislation
   Act 2024-4432024 regular session

   Moved residential code adoption from ADECA to the Home Builders Licensure Board and commercial energy code adoption from ADECA to the Alabama Licensing Board for General Contractors.

   Enacted 2024, authority transfer effective Oct 1, 2024

   dcm.alabama.gov (opens in a new tab)

How it was checked

Partial

Researched in the state’s own record. The seal stays broken until the passage is on file word for word.

Read twice: a second, blind reading of the state’s record agreed with the first on Oct 19, 2026.

The state’s record was last read on Oct 19, 2026, from three source pages.

Evidence 3 sources

Sources for the record itself come first, the state’s own records ahead of others. A label marks a source about something else, such as an exception. A source marked secondary is not the state’s own record.

• About a coming change

• About another code

  “2021 International Fire Code, with the following exceptions”

Tracker cross-checks

Code adoption trackers are a cross-check. They are not Alabama’s own record.

• DOE’s energycodes.govCross-checkAgrees with the record

  Current State Code: ASHRAE 90.1-2013; State Amendments: Yes; Equivalent Code: 90.1-2013; Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Enforcement: Mandatory Statewide

  energycodes.gov (opens in a new tab)Read Oct 17, 2026

• ICC’s code adoption mapCross-check

  Alabama row has 15 values for 17 columns

  mitek-us.com (opens in a new tab)Read Oct 17, 2026

Related pages

• See Alabama’s IECC commercial on the map
• IECC commercial adoption in every state
• All six codes in Alabama

Other codes in Alabama

• NEC2020 NECVerified
• IBC2021 IBCVerified
• IRC2015 IRCLead only
• IFC2021 IFCPartial
• IECC residential2015 IECCLead only