Importance of Standards in Engineering

If you are performing some experiments to know the performance level of certain type of construction material
you might have to follow ASTM (American Society for Testing Materials) which has many volumes and
experiments being standardized by professionals and researchers. Similarly we have AASTHTO (American
Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) for the materials being used in pavements, roads or
airfields and runways etc.

Why we need Codes and Standards

As already mentioned in the start that Standards play a very important role as far as level of precision and
optimism in quality and degree of performance is to maintained and enhanced. Standards vary from one place
to other like the standards we have for America might not be useable in Asian countries like China etc. The
reason of this variation in standard is variability in the availability of type of materials available, quality of
material. For example the soil of America is very different collectively than that of China or any other country.
This variation is also present within the country. The seismic zones are different. This variation can be easily
observed in civil engineering as every project has different sets of characteristics despite of the fact that even if
materials and requirements are taken as same.
The code concerned here is Uniform Building Code having short form of UBC. International Council of
Building Officials having their headquarter in California has published this code for the very first time way back
in 1927. ICBO was meant to promote Public safety by providing standards and requirements to ensure safe
construction.

History of Uniform Building Code (UBC)

ICBO continued to publish the updated versions of the code approx. after every three years until 1997 which
was indented as the final version after which in 2000 the UBC was replaced by IBC (International Building
Code) but IBC is mostly used in United States of America and few other countries. Most of the developing
countries still use UBC (Uniform Building code).
In this post I am going to share with you the link to download the code.

Division of Uniform Building Code (UBC)

Uniform Building Code (UBC) is divided in to two volumes further divided in to chapters and then further
subdivided into sections. Chapter 1 through 15 is included in Volume 1 while Volume 2 contains chapters from
16 through 23 and having Appendix at the end.

Download Uniform Building Code (UBC)

To download uniform Building (UBC) Simple click any of the following links;
Download UBC (Uniform Building Code) 97

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