- Author
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National Bureau of Standards
- Title
- Recommended Minimum Requirements for Small Dwelling Construction.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
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BH 18; Building and Housing 18
1932
107 p.
- Keywords
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construction
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building construction
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building design
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building codes
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roofs
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floors
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residential buildings
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walls
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masonry
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brick
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concretes
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wooden structures
- Abstract
- This report is a revision of another hearing the same title and issued in 1922. It is subdivided into three general headings, as follows: Part l. Introduction: Covering a general description of the circumstances leading to formation of the committee and outlining its method of procedure and scope of operation. Part 2. Minimum Requirements for Safe and Economical Construction of Small Dwellings: Briefly stated, in a form suitable for incorporation in local ordinances. Part 3. Aopendix: Containin material not suited to be incorporated in a building law but which is supplementary to the various requirements made in part 2. The circumstances at the time of issuance of the original report may be summed up in a statement appearing in a preliminary report of the Senate Committee on Reconstruction and Production a pointed in 1920. This committee held extensive hearings and stated: The building codes of the country have not been developed upon scientific data but rather on compromise; they are not uniform In practice and in many instances involve an additional cost to construction without assuring more useful or more durable bulldings. The final report of this Senate committee gave wide publicity to the building code discrepancies long known by architects and building engineers but not fully comprehended by the general public. Secretary Hoover, of the Department of Commerce, recognizing the necessity for some central coordinating body to standardize, so far as possible, the buiding laws of the country, organized the Building Code Committee for that purpose. the committee is a part of the division of building and housing in the Bureau of Standards. This division has under way a broad program of investigation into problems of the building industry. The committee organized the last of May, 1921, and secured the a pointment of a technical secretary and other clerical assistance; the task of gathering at once begun, and has gone on as a continuous process since that time.