By Lee Phillips | The Arizona Republic
The writers of a recent My Turn regarding building codes state that those codes are written to protect the health, welfare and safety of the public, and use this to justify adoption of the latest 2012 revision to the codes as well as diffuse criticism of those supporting it.
Although I support codes in general and their intent, I think the writers’ comments do little to address the very real concerns many users of the codes have regarding their current state, their usability, the nature of their continued revision, or their effect on the costs of both building and designing a structure.
One concern is the current state of the codes themselves. The international codes the writers referred to are only a small part of the code issue, as these are all interrelated in everyday practice and should be considered as a “code system,” which regulates and affects the design and construction of buildings.
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