Tim Ryan

TIM RYAN

Code Consultant

Ryan Consulting

Tim served the City of Overland Park for 45 years, all in the Building Safety Division. He served that community as a field inspector, plans examiner, field supervisor, and as Code Administrator from 1998 until 2017. He currently serves as a National and International Code Consultant. Tim graduated from Pittsburg State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Construction Management and Technology in 1978. He has been certified in 15 separate categories of building code administration and management. During his career, he has served on approximately 30 task force groups, ad hoc and administrative committees at the local, state and national levels. He is well recognized as a public speaker and is highly regarded as an instructor on several topics of building and fire codes, including existing buildings, legal aspects of code administration, leadership, and management. He served on the Board of Directors for the Building Officials and Code Administrators (BOCA), Intl. model code organization from 1993 through 2002, including as the last full-term President of BOCA before merging with ICBO and SBCCI to form the International Code Council. He then served 7 years on the Board of Directors for the International Code Council. He served on the Board of Directors for the National Institute of Building Sciences from 2006 through 2021. Starting in 2012, he served as one of six board members to be appointed to the NIBS Board by the President of the United States; Tim was appointed by President Obama in 2012. He has been a member of the ICC Codes and Standards Council and the ICC Code Correlation Committee. He serves as a moderator for the ICC Code Development hearings. In 2012, Tim was awarded ICC’s Bob Fowler Award. Tim was awarded the Mortimer M. Marshal Award from the National Institute of Building Sciences in January 2018 for outstanding lifetime achievement.