Uniform Building Code

Uniform Building Code

The Uniform Building Code (UBC) was a building code used primarily in the western United States.

History

The UBC was first published in 1927 by the International Council of Building Officials. It was intended to promote public safety and provided standardized requirements for safe construction which would not vary from city to city as had previously been the case. [Handbook to the Uniform Building Code: an Illustrative Commentary. Whittier, Calif.: International Conference of Building Officials, c1988. ]

Updated editions of the code were published approximately every three years until 1997, which was the final version of the code. The UBC was replaced in 2000 by the new International Building Code (IBC) published by the International Code Council (ICC). The ICC was a merger of three predecessor organizations which published three different building codes. These were:
*International Council of Building Officials (ICBO) Uniform Building Code
*Building Officials Conference of America (BOCA) BOCA/Basic Building Code
*Southern Building Code Congress International (SBCCI) Southern Building CodeThe new ICC was intended to provide consistent standards for safe construction and eliminate differences between the three different predecessor codes. It is primarily used in North America.

References

External Links

[http://www.iccsafe.org/news/about/ International Code Council]


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