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Introduction and Overview. Codes Residential Applications of the 2009 IECCRESCheck/REM Rate. Codes. Building Code
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1. The 2009 International Energy Conservation Code Overview
2. Introduction and Overview
Codes
Residential Applications of the 2009 IECC
RESCheck/REM Rate
3. Codes
Building Code – A set of rules of procedures
designed to secure uniformity and protect the public interest in such matters as building constriction and public health, established by a public agency and commonly having the force of law in a particular jurisdiction
4. Earliest Recorded Building Code The Code of Hammurabi 1780 BC The earliest recorded “Building Code” comes from an 8 foot stone slab recovered in the Persian Mountains in 1901. It is preserved today in the Louvre, Paris The Code was written by the ruler of Babylon: King Hammurabi The Code contained 282 laws, of which 5 referred to construction