The National Geographic Channel documentary series Seconds From Disaster suggested that the Murrah Federal Building would probably have survived the blast had it been built according to California's earthquake design codes.

* Building codes and land-use planning: The " EPCOT Building Codes " were implemented to provide the sort of flexibility that the innovative community of EPCOT would require.

Although the codes are ostensibly updated on a three-year cycle, the most recent and currently used version of the EPCOT Building Codes is the 2002 version.

Building codes require a second means of egress, in case of fire.

The pristine condition of the town is due to the building codes that were established, the creation of the Building Department which included a Building Inspector, and a zoning ordinance ( the first in the state of New Jersey ).

All three aforementioned examples are issued as guideline documents, which are then used by their Provinces and Bundesländer, respectively, as a baseline to author their own building codes, such as the Ontario Building Code ( OBC ) and fire codes, such as the Alberta Fire Code ( AFC ), respectively, which must then, in turn, also be adopted by the municipalities, before they become local law, which is then locally enforced by the municipalities.

Building codes in the United States for places of assembly, generally over 100 persons, and places with overnight sleeping accommodation such as hotels, nursing homes, dormitories, and hospitals usually require sprinklers either under local building codes, as a condition of receiving State and Federal funding or as a requirement to obtain certification ( essential for institutions who wish to train medical staff )..

In the UK, since the 1990s sprinklers have gained recognition within the Building Regulations ( England and Wales ) and Scottish Building Standards and under certain circumstances, the presence of sprinkler systems is deemed to provide a form of alternative compliance to some parts of the codes.

Building codes are intended to help to manage seismic risk and are updated as more is learned about the effects of seismic ground motion on buildings.

Building on the work of the OECD, other international organizations, private sector associations and more than 20 national corporate governance codes formed the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting ( ISAR ) to produce their Guidance on Good Practices in Corporate Governance Disclosure.

Building codes will then specify the minimum tread size at the walkline.

Building codes typically specify certain measurements so that the stairs are not too steep or narrow.

Building codes require variances no larger than between depth of adjacent treads or the height of adjacent risers ; within a flight, the tolerance between the largest and smallest riser or between the largest and smallest tread can not exceed.

Building codes typically classify them as ladders and will only allow them where ladders are allowed, usually basement or attic utility or storage areas not frequently accessed.

Building codes and manufacturers ' instructions usually recommended that dryers vent outdoors.

Building codes based on LSD implicitly define the appropriate levels of reliability by their prescriptions.

Building codes and local government ordinances vary greatly on the handling of storm drain runoff.

Building codes are established at the local level and the U. S. has extensive building standards that are based on customary units.

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They are on display in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building ( formerly the New York Public Library Main Branch ) in New York.

Although the Turun Sanomat Building and Paimio Sanatorium are comparatively pure modernist works, they too carried the seeds of his questioning of such an orthodox modernist approach and a move to a more daring, synthetic attitude.

Building new highways is one of the top goals of the 2009 elected government of Boyko Borisov, therefore new roads and highways are regularly opened for use.

Some early ' skyscrapers ' were made in masonry, and demonstrated the limitations of the material – for example, the Monadnock Building in Chicago ( opened in 1896 ) is masonry and just 17 stories high ; the ground walls are almost thick, clearly building any higher would lead to excessive loss of internal floor space on the lower floors.

There are six markers within the city limits: ' Cadillac Carnegie Library ,' ' Charles T. Mitchell House ,' ' Clam Lake Canal ,' ' Cobbs & Mitchell Building ,' ' Cobbs & Mitchell No. 1 ' and the ' Shay Locomotive ,' which is pictured at the right.

Presently, the four tallest buildings in the city are Willis Tower ( formerly the Sears Tower, also a building with its own zip code ), Trump International Hotel and Tower, the Aon Center ( previously the Standard Oil Building ), and the John Hancock Center.

The most important registers are the Population Register ( Det Centrale Personregister ), the Building and Dwelling Register and the Enterprise Register.

When it comes to the world's largest door, there is not just one, in fact there are four and they all belong to NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.

Henry Hicks Academic Administration Building, the heart of Dalhousie University's Studley CampusDalhousie University's primary campuses are situated in the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, spanning the Halifax Peninsula near Halifax Harbour, while the Dalhousie University Agricultural Campus is located in rural Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Regular ceremonies of the Emperor with a constitutional basis are the Prime Minister investitures in the Imperial palace throne room and the Speech from the Throne ceremony in the House of Councillors in the National Diet Building.

* Building and structural firewalls in North America are usually made of concrete, concrete blocks or reinforced concrete.

More than two kilometres of filed documents, as well as hundreds of microfilm reels, are now stored in a special climate-controlled vault in the Manitoba Archives Building.

Some points of interest are the Grotto ( the interior was designed by the French artist Niki de Saint-Phalle ), the Gallery Building, the Orangerie and the two pavilions by Remy de la Fosse.

Some other popular sights are the Waterloo Column, the Laves House, the Wangenheim Palace, the Lower Saxony State Archives, the Hanover Playhouse, the Kröpcke Clock, the Anzeiger Tower Block, the Administration Building of the NORD / LB, the Cupola Hall of the Congress Centre, the Lower Saxony Stock, the Ministry of Finance, the Garten Church, the Luther Church, the Gehry Tower ( designed by the American architect Frank O. Gehry ), the specially designed Bus Stops, the Opera House, the Central Station, the Maschsee lake and the city forest Eilenriede, which is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

The construction of the K. C. Roy Hall in the Electrical Engineering Building, expansion of the Chemical Engineering Building, construction of the Gymnasium ( now Indoor Stadium ), a revolving Theatrical Stage, the Wind Mills for pumping out the water from the Play Grounds are all Alumni creations.

The Seagram Building is said to be an early example of the innovative " fast-track " construction process, where design documentation and construction are done concurrently.

* 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.

The core functions of the Capacity Building Branch are as follows:

From left to right are the memorial chairs, Gate of Time and Reflecting Pool, the Survivor Tree, and the Journal Record Building.

The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.

In the Engineering Quad, a trinity of sculptures by Michael Heizer, collectively entitled 45 Degrees, 90 Degrees, 180 Degrees, are flanked by Abercrombie Laboratory, the Cox Building, and the Mechanical Laboratory, housing the Electrical, Mechanical, and Earth Science / Civil Engineering departments, respectively.

At the moment Koolhaas ' constructions sites are in China: the massive Central China Television Headquarters Building in Beijing, China, and the new building for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the equivalent of the NASDAQ in China.

Administrative functions are based at the Empress State Building, and communication handling at the three Metcall complexes, rather than at Scotland Yard.