Residential Housing Review
1. What is the purpose of Building Codes
- health, safety, ? well-bcing of the public
Protect human life
Professionals are licensed b/c the public sofety is in ther hands.
2. What is thought to be one of the first building codes? When was it in affect?
- Babylonian Code of Hammurabi
1780BC
3. What was the premise of this building code?
if builders building kills its ownes the builder shall be hilled
4. What act /acts prompted insurance companies to demand building codes?
- the Great Chicago fine or 1871
5. What as the first model-code group and when was if founded?
- 1915
- BOLA, Building officials in Code administration.
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6. What group in 1922 had codes for states west of the Mississippi River?
-ICBO, International Conference of Building officials
7. What group, founded in 1940, Published building codes for the southeast US.
Southern Building Code Conference
8. These three code organizations formed what group? When were the codes published?
- International Code Council (100)
- 2000
9. What are bubble diagrams?
Freenand Sketches used to determine locations ? relationships.
floor plan
10. What is the purpose of a foundation?
Provide a level, stable surface to safely support a building
transfer building loads to Soil.
Anchor the building from wind, flood, ! seismic loads.
11. Why do we worry about frost depth in design of a foundation?
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freezing soil can cause heaving of foundations.
Silt or cray soils with a high water table are highly susceptible to frost.
12. What is a dead load for a foundation?
weight of building
13. What is a live load for a foundation?
Weight of occupants, furniture, and equipment.
