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Even the electrical and plumbing codes are life safety.  I'm told that more house fires are caused by electrical faults than any other.  Improper plumbing often results in deadly consequences.  We've all heard of Legionnaire's disease in airconditioning.

Laymen usually believe that Codes address every aspect of construction.  I have had to explain many times over the years that a wall can be leaning and crooked but Codes only care if it could collapse and hurt someone.

In the architecture business -- including construction -- communication is mostly graphic as it has to be.  However, what we are illustrating or describing is the desired finished results.  It is generally accepted that the plans & specs define the goal but the Contractor determines the method of achieving the goal (within OSHA limitations).  Acceptable quality is often hard to describe quantitatively but the specs and their referenced standards try, if only imperfectly.  Design intent is often the most difficult quality to describe contractually.

CK

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Pat Hoag 
  To: chandlerknowles at att.net 
  Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 6:23 PM
  Subject: Code Talk


  Chandler,

  I could not agree more with your signs. But plans and specs., represent graphic representation of the concept and the specification of the components to be used. They do not illustrate the separation of life safety. Life safety is addressed through or by review of the AHJ applying NFPA Codes (Re: NFPA Code Purpose and Intent) and FBC is applicable to the structure. There is no QA/QC application of either code. Those aspects are enforced by the A/E and their intent of their design and compliance with the contract documents (i.e., referenced product application specifications) as you have mentioned.

   

  BO's will waiver on any QA/QC issue.

   

   
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