NAFFA International (NAFFA) is a family of talented individuals assembled to provide exceptional engineering building code services that are technologically-leveraged and customer friendly.

NAFFA' s staff and support professionals are licensed Architects, Engineers, Certified Plans Examiners and Building Officials, Building/Fire Inspectors, Building Code Educators and Developers of Building Code lookup software and online resources.

NAFFA's staff experience include review and analysis for 1000's of projects ranging from single family dwellings to the very complex and hazardous structures and occupancies. Over the years, the NAFFA team developed special skills and tools to deal with complex reviews under time constraints. Our staff's well-rounded experience include assignments in private, governmental, construction, design, plan check and field inspection.

Bringing international individuals together with various expertise culminated in the development of the national Building Code Discussions Group (BCDG).

The BCDG is a dynamic online community for building codes, life-safety, construction and related Q & A with a registered membership in the thousands. NAFFA, along with a national host of technical experts and professionals, dispense opinions and help end users (experts and novices alike) through the building codes and permitting maze of information.

NAFFA's accomplishments include development of NCSBCS-award-winning CodeBuddy™ programs (the popular graphical building codes and accessibility look up software), and other code-related specialty programs and online tools.

NAFFA's extensive technology use, ability to plainly explain and analyze complex engineering and code topics to customers and clients; provides everyone involved with an invaluable single-source of building codes information.

Imad Naffa is the founder and president of NAFFA International. Naffa specializes in the areas of building, fire and life-safety code review, building code software development; technical training and building permitting solutions. Imad started his professional career in the early eighties and has multi-discipline experience in building and structures analysis, plan review and has served a number of assignments as a technical instructor in life-safety and structural plan review.

Imad is a 1979 graduate from Bishop's High School in Amman, Jordan, and 1983 B.S. graduate in Civil Engineering from California State University at Fresno. He is a registered Civil Engineer in a number of states and holds certifications in a dozen code-related fields. In November 2000, Imad became the recipient of NCSBCS national award "Streamlining the Nation's Building Regulations" for the development of CodeBuddy™ building codes lookup software.

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