Old Building Codes - New Member

[Wilson Fausel]

I am a licensed inspector in central North Carolina and have been reading this forum for about 3 years and finally decided to join.

I have become interested in old building codes and am looking for an on-line source. These can be National, regional or municipal. I realize the ICC and the NFPA sell CDs but does anyone know of a free on-line source?

Wilson

[Wayne Carlisle]

How about this one!!!

The Code of Hammurabi (also known as Codex Hammurabi) is one of the earliest and best preserved law codes from ancient Babylon, created ca. 1760 BC .

#229 If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

#230 If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death.


Do a search for Code of Hammurabi. Quite interesting!

[Jerry Peck]

A lot of good wisdom in there: The Code of Hammurabi (http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM)

[Gunnar Alquist]

Har har Wayne. I think that he might be interested in something a bit more current. He said old, not ancient. :rolleyes:

[Dave Hahn]

Wilson....You want "AD" old?

The NC DOI website has links to several previous versions of the building code going back to 1936. I wish they had whatever came between 1978 and 1997 (when I started collecting them):

Welcome to NC Office of State Fire Marshal (http://www.ncdoi.com/OSFM/Engineering/CodeServices/engineering_codeservices_home.asp)

Dave