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AIA News
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Hearing to Weigh Costs and Benefits of Safe Building Codes
By Cooper Martin, Manager, Community Resilience
On July 24, 2012 the Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Subcommittee will hear testimony regarding the Safe Building Codes Incentive Act (HR 2069). The bill would amend the Stafford Act on Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance to offer a 4 percent bonus in federal disaster recovery aid to states that adopt and enforce model building codes for residential and commercial structures. The AIA’s adopted position statements support comprehensive, coordinated, and contemporary building codes. If successful, the bill has the potential to raise minimum building standards in 34 states that do not currently meet its conditions for model code enforcement.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (April 9, 2012) – The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and Construction Specifications Canada (CSC) today announced the 2012 updates to MasterFormat®, their flagship product used to organize construction documents for commercial, industrial and institutional building projects in the United States and Canada.
CSI and CSC added 76 new numbers/titles, changed 18 of the existing numbers/titles and deleted three that duplicated other existing numbers/titles.
“After reviewing the latest changes to MasterFormat proposed by its users, CSI and CSC experts made a number of updates, making it even easier to organize project manuals, or store and retrieve project information,” said CSI Executive Director and CEO Walter Marlowe, P.E., CSI, CAE.
“These changes further refine MasterFormat, ensuring that this standard filing system reflects the evolving needs of the industry and facilitates effective communication between project team members,” said CSC President Bruce J. Gillham, CTR, CCCA. |
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