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GED CONSULTANTS TRAINING 

Chapter 

1
Building Codes‐Design Criteria
GED CONSULTANTS TRAINING 

1. Building Codes and Specifications
• ICC “International Code Council”: was established in 1994 as a non‐profit organization dedicated
to developing a single set of comprehensive and coordinated national model construction codes,
including the International Building Code. It helps to design and construct safe structures, comply with
fire prevention measures and energy efficiency, and minimize loss and risk. The ICC is a United States‐
based non‐profit, non‐governmental organization which allows governmental jurisdictions around the
world and other stakeholders to collaborate to create model building codes.
• IBC “International Building Code”: This code is developed by the ICC. The IBC is a model code
for building structures that communities can adopt and adapt in‐part as needed. This comprehensive
building code establishes minimum regulations for building system using prescriptive and performance‐
related provisions. Its first edition was published in 2000. The IBC addresses minimum requirements for
preserving the public health, safety and general welfare of the occupants of new and existing buildings
or structures.
• CBSC “California Building Standards Code”: title 24 serves as the basis for the design and
construction of buildings in California. Improved safety, sustainability, maintaining consistency, new
technology and construction methods. California’s building codes are published in their entirety every
three (3) years.
GED CONSULTANTS TRAINING 

• LADBS “Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety”: LADBS approves alternate building
materials or products that are at least equivalent to the materials prescribed in the code in terms of quality,
effective time period of fire resistance, strength, effectiveness, durability and safety within the City of Los
Angeles. Approved materials are published as Los Angeles Research Reports (LARR).

• ASCE7 “American Society of Civil Engineers”: this Standard provides requirements for general
structural design and includes means for determining dead, live, soil, flood, wind, snow, rain, atmospheric ice,
and earthquake loads, as well as their combinations, which are suitable for inclusion in building codes and
other documents. Many of this standards are referenced by model building codes and adopted by state and
local jurisdiction (IBC).

• NDS “National Design Specifications for wood constructions”: all requirements for design of
wood structures, which includes: design information for wind and seismic conditions, sawn lumber, structural
glued laminated timber, structural‐use panels, shear walls and diaphragms, poles and piles, I‐joists, structural
composite lumber, structural connections (nails, bolts, screws), and cross‐laminated timber.
GED CONSULTANTS TRAINING 

• SDPWS “Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic”: this covers materials provides criteria
for proportioning, design, detailing and construction of wood systems, members, fasteners, and assemblies to
resist wind and seismic forces. Engineered design of wood structures to resist wind or seismic forces is either
by allowable stress design (ASD); or load and resistance factor design (LRFD).

• AISC “American Institute of Steel Construction”: It is a non‐for‐profit technical institute and trade
association for the use of structural steel in the construction industry of de USA. The code defines the
statement of custom and usage for fabricated structural steel. This code provides useful framework for a
common understanding of the acceptable standards when contracting for structural steel.

• ACI “American Concrete Institute”: It provides minimum requirements for the materials, design, and
detailing of structural concrete buildings and, where applicable, nonbuilding structures. This code addresses
structural systems, members, and connections, including cast‐in‐place, precast, plain, nonprestressed,
prestressed, and composite construction.

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