Customer Reviews

Uniform Building Code Compliance Manual

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This book makes an excellent Companion for the 1997 UBC Code. It is broken into section like the UBC code, each section has check list that can be used to insure compliance with the code.

The CD Rom in the back of the book allows you to print out check list that can be used in project files for documentation. An excelent tool for any design Engineer.

This book is a big check-list. Do not buy it if you are actually looking for building code information. However, it would probably be useful to contractors who want to be sure they have covered all bases. (I gave it two stars because it was not useful for me.)

Page xiv states, "A copy of the Uniform Building Code is required to use this book," and that is the truth. I wish that information had been available in the reviews before I bought it. This book does not summarize the code requirements.

To the above reviewer who claims this tome contains no more than a checklist and was not useful to him, my response can only be that even Hamlet, tossed into the ape's den, will eventually become so much banana toppings.

Truly, it would take one of little imagination not to find application within these pages. I offer, as proof, this quote from page 79, "In structures having spiral or sloping floor, the horizontal projection of structure at any cross section shall not exceed allowable area per parking tier."

Ho! Could the Greeks have offered up truth any clearer? Could the poets in their infernal contortions of language have landed on surer footing than the UBC finds in those solid syllables above?

Here I offer you a work of man's pride and his humility, his ambition and his concern. Yes, your tribe may tempt God himself with your Tower of Babel, but by these pages I swear the foundation shall be laid symmetrical and unto a 3 or 4:1 ratio of density to units high depending on area soil composition and proximity to residential dwellings!