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    Building codes are sets of rules that specify minimum construction standards to protect public health, safety, and welfare. The earliest known building code is the Code of Hammurabi from 1800 BC, while modern codes began with the 1897 National Electrical Code following destructive fires. Building codes have evolved in response to natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes, as well as fires, to require improvements like sprinkler systems and seismic strengthening. The National Building Code of the Philippines was established by Presidential Decree 1096 to develop construction standards using public and private sector expertise.

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    Building codes are sets of rules that specify minimum construction standards to protect public health, safety, and welfare. The earliest known building code is the Code of Hammurabi from 1800 BC, while modern codes began with the 1897 National Electrical Code following destructive fires. Building codes have evolved in response to natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes, as well as fires, to require improvements like sprinkler systems and seismic strengthening. The National Building Code of the Philippines was established by Presidential Decree 1096 to develop construction standards using public and private sector expertise.

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    Building codes are sets of rules that specify minimum construction standards to protect public health, safety, and welfare. The earliest known building code is the Code of Hammurabi from 1800 BC, while modern codes began with the 1897 National Electrical Code following destructive fires. Building codes have evolved in response to natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes, as well as fires, to require improvements like sprinkler systems and seismic strengthening. The National Building Code of the Philippines was established by Presidential Decree 1096 to develop construction standards using public and private sector expertise.

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    Building codes are sets of rules that specify minimum construction standards to protect public health, safety, and welfare. The earliest known building code is the Code of Hammurabi from 1800 BC, while modern codes began with the 1897 National Electrical Code following destructive fires. Building codes have evolved in response to natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes, as well as fires, to require improvements like sprinkler systems and seismic strengthening. The National Building Code of the Philippines was established by Presidential Decree 1096 to develop construction standards using public and private sector expertise.

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    CODES AND

    REGULATIONS
    WHAT IS BUILDING CODES

    • A building code, or building control, is a set of rules that specify the minimum standards
    for constructed objects such as buildings and non building structures. The main purpose of
    building codes are to protect public health, safety and general welfare as they relate to the
    construction and occupancy of buildings and structures. The building code becomes law of
    a particular jurisdiction when formally enacted by the appropriate governmental or private
    authority. Building codes are generally intended to be applied by architects, engineers,
    constructors and regulators but are also used for various purposes by safety inspectors,
    environmental scientists, real estate developers, subcontractors, manufacturers of building
    products and materials, insurance companies, facility managers, tenants and others
    BRIEF HISTORY OF BUILDING CODES

    • The Code of Hammurabi (1800 B.C) is generally recognized as the world’s first building code,
    although this code was essentially a criminal statute that included capital punishment for shoddy
    workmanship that resulted in death. The great fires of history including Rome (64 AD), Boston
    (1631), London (1666), Chicago (1871), Baltimore (1904) and Cleveland Clinic (1929), led to
    soul-searching and new regulations.
    • The beginning of modern codes can be traced to the 1897 publication of the NFPA’s National
    Electrical Code (NEC). (Today, the 2014 NFPA 70: NEC covers the latest requirements on
    electrical wiring and equipment installation issues, including provisions for the use of connections,
    voltage markings, conductors and cables). Early attempts to prevent fires -- predecessors of today’s
    zoning laws and safety codes -- included requirements for wider streets, limitations on building
    spacing and height, and elimination of thatched roofs and wooden chimneys in cities.
    BRIEF HISTORY OF BUILDING CODES

    • Tragic fires at the MGM Grand in 1980 and the Station Nightclub in 2003 led to more recent
    requirements for fire protection, including sprinkler systems, exit lighting and limits on
    explosives and pyrotechnics.
    • Natural disasters also lead to code improvements. Hurricane Andrew in 1992 resulted in the
    development of more stringent construction standards. The storm that destroyed South Florida
    revealed a serious deficiency and led to Florida’s first statewide code system. Seismic code
    provisions appeared first in Italy and Japan in the early 20th Century and in the United States
    as an appendix to the Uniform Building Code in 1927. Research programs have increased our
    understanding of earthquakes over the years, and serious research programs beginning in the
    1970s led to code upgrades following the Northridge Earthquake in California in 1994.
    THE NATIONAL BUILDING CODE OF THE
    PHILIPPINES
    • Presidential Decree No. 1096, Otherwise known as “National Building Code of the
    Philippines”
    • PD 1096 is also the revision of Republic Act No. 6541 the “An Act to Ordain and
    Institute a National Building Code of the Philippines”
    • The formation of PD 1096 is the desire and policy of the Government to avail of and
    harness the technical expertise and professional know-how of men not only in the public
    but in the private sectors as well.

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