There are increasing concerns over building code, regulation compliance, and quality assurance issues in adopting off-site construction techniques the industry related to meeting client expectations regulatory requirements. Performance-based regulations often allow for space innovation but not a safe those who intend introduce new prescribed regulations. Through series of surveys conducted Swed...

Means of egress code requirements are intended to provide provisions for design, construction and layout of building elements in order to provide a continuous and unobstructed path of travel from any point in a building or structure to a public way. Although research into automating building code compliance (i.e. for means of egress code requirements) is extensive, the question of how to effici...

in recent years, seismic evaluation and vulnerability of the existing buildings, that have been designed based on an earlier seismic design code or designed without seismic design criteria, has been very important. in this paper, the seismic evaluation and vulnerability of concrete buildings, using an old 5- story building with shear walls as an example has been discussed. for this building, fi...

The  study  aims  to  investigate  the  progressive  collapse  behaviour  of  RCC  building  under extreme  loading  events  such  as  gas  explosion  in  kitchen,  terroristic  attack,  vehicular collisions  and  accidental  overloads.  The  behavioural  changes  have  been  investigated  and node displacements  are computed when the building is subjected to sudden collapse of the  load beari...

As with many products, the building code regulates the use of wood in construction. Two broad categories separate materials: combustible and noncombustible. Codes limit the application of combustible materials on the basis of fire and life safety. The question then is, ‘‘Are there options available in the 2009 International Building Code for using wood in structural applications in lieu of nonc...