Craft, Trades & Making · Building Trades
A topic within Building Trades, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Craft, Trades & Making.
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George N. Thompson
Treats a building code as a document that must be actively maintained against new materials and methods, and sets out a process for revising one without the confusion of overlapping amendments.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Congressional Research Service
Explains that most US building codes are model codes written by a private standards body and only become law when a state or municipality adopts them, which is why the same code varies in force from place to place.
link checked 17 Sept 2026