What is "building codes"

Usage examples of "building codes".

Provision for internal over-pressure and filtration systems were as routine in Grayson building codes as roofs were on other planets, and public structures—.

There'd been a time when Hoskins Tower's plumbing would have been fixed within dayswhen the discovery that the bureaucrats in charge of its construction had used substandard materials and evaded building codes throughout the massive structure in order to pocket enormous profits would have led to indictments and prison time.

Provision for internal over-pressure and filtration systems were as routine in Grayson building codes as roofs were on other planets, and public structureslike Protector's Palace, or her own steadholder's mansionwere built under climate-controlled domes as a matter of course.

There'd been a time when Hoskins Towers plumbing would have been fixed within dayswhen the discovery that the bureaucrats in charge of its construction had used substandard materials and evaded building codes throughout the massive structure in order to pocket enormous profits would have led to indictments and prison time.

There'd been a time when Hoskins Tower's plumbing would have been fixed within days -- when the discovery that the bureaucrats in charge of its construction had used substandard materials and evaded building codes throughout the massive structure in order to pocket enormous profits would have led to indictments and prison time.

Strangled by local building codes and conservative trade unions, the industry's rate of technological advance is far below that of other industries.

I understand that that's The Store's property, and I realize that they have to clear the land in order to put up the store and parking lot and everything, but I'm pretty sure that our local building codes are not being followed, and I know this goes against the town's Master Plan.

Then you let it go a little bit at a time to minor trespasses like zoning laws and building codes—.

A restaurant in a four-hundred-year-old brownstone, probably constructed long before anyone had even thought about building codes.

The Kezdet Authority has forbidden us to go forward with Maganos Moon Base, or to add any more personnel, until is completely satisfied by report of independent commission that all construction meets Kezdet building codes.

They're checking everything from our building codes to our financial records.

True, Hurricane Andrew's wreckage revealed widespread illegal construction practices and egregious non-enforcement of the building codes.

The hurricane tragically confirmed that government cannot be relied upon to enforce building codes, especially in areas of uncontrolled growth.

For that matter New World Homes would have failed, too, if the roadtowns hadn't come along and given us a market out from under local building codes.