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A building code, or building control, is a set of rules that specify the minimum standards for constructed objects such as buildings and non-building structures. • The main purpose of building codes are to protect public health, safety and general welfare as they relate to the construction and occupancy of buildings and structures. • The building code becomes law of a particular jurisdiction when formally enacted by the appropriate governmental or private authority. • Building codes are generally intended to be applied by architects, engineers, constructors and regulators but are also used for various purposes by safety inspectors, environmental scientists, real estate developers, subcontractors, manufacturers of building products and materials, insurance companies, facility managers, tenants, and others. • Codes regulating the design and construction of structures where adopted into law. https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Building_code

The Code of Hammurabi – The first building code http: //tiptonde. com/? p=2315

The earliest known written building code is included in the Code of Hammurabi (a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, consists of 282 laws), which dates from circa 1772 BC. 228. If a builder build a house for some one and complete it, he shall give him a fee of two shekels in money for each sar of surface. 229 If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death. 230. If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death. 231. If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house. 232. If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall reerect the house from his own means. 233. If a builder build a house for some one, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means. https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Building_code

Modern era – Building Codes After the Great Fire of London in 1666, which had been able to spread so rapidly through the densely built timber housing of the city, the Rebuilding of London Act was passed in the same year as the first significant building regulation. The Laws of the Indies were passed in the 1680 s by the Spanish Crown to regulate the urban planning for colonies throughout Spain's worldwide imperial possessions. The first systematic national building standard was established with the London Building Act of 1844. The City of Baltimore passed its first building code in 1859. The Great Baltimore Fire occurred in February, 1904. Subsequent changes were made that matched other cities. In 1904, a Handbook of the Baltimore City Building Laws was published. It served as the building code for four years. Very soon, a formal building code was drafted and eventually adopted in 1908.

Building Codes in the United States The earliest of the organizations that developed model codes was the Building Officials and Code Administration (BOCA). It formed in 1915 in the Northeast. However, the model codes BOCA developed, the National Building Code (NBC), weren’t actually published as a single compilation until 1950. The first set of model codes to be published—in 1927—was the Uniform Building Code (UBC). It was developed by the International Council of Building Officials (ICBO), an organization active largely in the West. The Southern Building Code Congress International (SBCCI) was founded in 1940, and in 1945 it published the first edition of its Standard Building Code (SBC), which was used mainly in the South. Figure 1 below shows the regions where these model codes were primarily adopted as local building codes. (Note- Wisconsin and New York developed their own codes. ) http: //www. air-worldwide. com/Publications/AIR-Currents/2010/The-Evolution-of-Building-Codes-in-the-United-States-with-Respect-to. Hurricane-Winds/

Figure 1: Model Building Codes by Region. (Source: BNI® Building News, 2002)

In 1972 these three groups (BOCA, ICBO, SBCCI) created an umbrella organization—the Council of American Building Officials, or CABO—in order to develop a single model code for conventional single-family construction that could be used nationwide. Two decades later, in 1994, the three groups formally consolidated into a single organization, the International Code Council (ICC). After several years of research and development, the first set of codes was introduced in 2000. http: //codes. iccsafe. org/app/book/toc/2015/I-Codes/2015%20 IBC%20 HTML/index. html

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The City of College Station – Building Code The City of College Station has adopted the family of International Building Codes to regulate construction. http: //www. cstx. gov/index. aspx? page=974 Planning & Development Services Maps http: //www. cstx. gov/index. aspx? page=971 Zoning Map http: //www. cstx. gov/Modules/Show. Document. aspx? documentid=15476

Zoning Map – The City of College Station

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