Building codes for existing and historic buildings
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Hoboken, N.J.
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Wiley
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2012
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xv, 248 p.: ill.
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes index
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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Melvyn Green
CONTENTS NOTE
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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