National Building Code: Providing for All Matters Concerning, Affecting or Relating to the Construction, Alteration, Equipment, Repair or Removal of Buildings or Structures Erected or to Be Erected (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

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9781528574921: National Building Code: Providing for All Matters Concerning, Affecting or Relating to the Construction, Alteration, Equipment, Repair or Removal of Buildings or Structures Erected or to Be Erected (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10 : 1528574923 ISBN 13 : 9781528574921

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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Foreword SINCE the publication in 1905 of the first issue of this Building Code, it has passed through three editions, with numerous reprints, and over 30,000 copies have been distributed to the public The Foreword of the original edition contained the following paragraphs :I nthe belief that safe and good construction of buildings should be universally recognized as of the utmost importance, this Building Code, prepared and recommended by the undersigned Committee, is based on broad principles which have been sufficiently amplified to provide for varying local conditions. Thousands of human lives and millions of dollars worth of property have been sacrificed by the criminal folly of erecting unsafe or defective buildings. So long as those in authority permit such buildings to be erected, neither Hfe nor property can be safe. A remedy safeguarding both may be found in this book. The vital importance of its principles should arouse municipal authorities everywhere to a realizing sense of their duty and to the grave responsibility that rests upon them to enact and enforce adequate building laws for the protection of life and property. The Committee considers those statements as true to-day as vhen first presented, and believes they apply to this revised edition with even greater force than to the one for which they were originally written. In the period intervening between the two, the art of building construction advanced with remarkable rapidity. Materials employed and methods of use have changed radically in certain directions, making a revision of the Code a necessity. The need for occasional revision was foreseen and indicated when the Code was first written, and will of course be required from time to time to meet changing conditions. The Committee in presenting this completely revised edition, believes it offers to the public a safe, practical, conserva
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