41. By touting cost savings, AFC has persuaded cities and towns nationwide to rewrite their building codes to allow the use of prewired cable. 42. Changes in building codes have increased some building costs, and State Farm routinely pays a percentage of those expenses. 43. Check the spanning tables of the state building code to determine how many pounds per square foot your floor will carry, both dead load and live load. 44. City officials said this requirement would most likely be added to the building code in a few months. 45. Current earthquake building codes are inadequate. 46. Current building codes would not permit homes to be built on this steep of a slope. 47. Currently, the uniform building code only requires owners to erect buildings that can survive a quake with no loss of life. 48. Did the Gujarat quake reveal shoddy construction and widespread violation of building codes? 49. Destroyed and damaged structures usually must be restored under new building codes that often require larger lots and more expensive construction methods. 50. Different zoning and building codes, too, explain the aesthetic gap. |