Building codes for existing and historic buildings /

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Main Author: Green, Melvyn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. John Wiley & Sons c2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • How codes regulate buildings
  • Development of building codes in the United States
  • Development of model code provisions for existing buildings
  • Development of code provisions for historic buildings
  • Occupancy
  • Planning and construction factors
  • Principles of regulating existing buildings
  • International existing building code compliance methods
  • International existing building code
  • prescriptive compliance method
  • International existing building code-work area compliance method: repairs and alterations
  • International existing building code-work area compliance method: special conditions
  • International existing building code performance compliance method
  • Summary of the compliance methodologies
  • The legal basis for historic preservation regulations
  • The rationale behind historic preservation regulations
  • The IEBC and the secretary of the interior's standards.