Samhar Hoz, CLA-Firestopping, LEED Green Assoc., is a staff engineer in the International Code Council’s Codes and Standards Development division in the Central Regional Office. She joined the Code Council with more than ten years of combined experience as a civil, construction, structural engineer and outreach manager.

Hoz is a member of the Code Council’s Technical Services team. She is the secretary of the Building (IBC)—Fire Safety Committee, the secretary for the ICC Residential Seismic Assessment & Retrofit Standard Committee, and one of the secretaries of code development for the Building Code Action Committee. She has also been a speaker at many events in the industry.

Hoz has a bachelor’s degree in civil and structural engineering and a master’s degree in engineering management from Eastern Michigan University.