National Building CodeAmerican Insurance Association, Engineering and Safety Service., 1915 |
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12 inches 30 feet anchored approved arches auditorium blocks brick building or structure buildings of Class cast iron ceiling cellar cement mortar cent chimney Code columns court curtain diameter dumbwaiter elevator enclosed entrance erected exceed exceeding extreme fibre stress feet in height fire doors fire limits fire test fire walls fire windows fireproof buildings fireproof construction fireproof material flues frame buildings girders grade gypsum hallway heavy zigzag line horizontal exit inches in thickness inches thick incombustible material least length live load lot line masonry metal lath non-fireproof buildings NOTE occupied owner paragraph partitions party wall permitted pipe placed plaster Portland cement pounds per square protected reinforced concrete roof safe Section 90 shafts side skylight slabs smoke pipe space span sprinklers square feet square inch stairs standpipe steel story street supported tenement house terra cotta thereof timber tion ventilating vertical width wooden yard
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Page 142 - All tests shall be made in accordance with the methods proposed by the Committee on Uniform Tests of Cement...
Page 11 - Words' used in this code in the present tense include the future as- well as the present; words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter; the singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular; the word "person...
Page 28 - Buildings may enter upon the premises and employ such labor, and furnish such materials, and take such steps as, in his judgment, may be necessary to make the same safe and secure...
Page 252 - In every tenement house occupied by more than two families a proper light shall be kept burning by the owner in the public hallways, near the stairs, upon the entrance floor and upon the second floor above the entrance floor of said house, every night from sunset to sunrise throughout the year, and upon all other floors of the said house from sunset until ten o'clock in the evening.
Page 210 - The said open courts and corridors shall not be used for storage purposes, or for any purpose whatsoever except for exit and entrance from and to the auditorium and stage, and must be kept free and clear during performances.
Page 48 - ... anchors, placed two feet apart and properly fastened or driven into the old walls in rows alternating vertically and horizontally with each other, the old walls being first cleaned of plaster or other coatings where any lining is to be built against the same. No rubble wall shall be lined except after inspection and approval by the Department.
Page 253 - No part of any room in a dwelling hereafter erected shall be enclosed or subdivided at any time, wholly or in part, by a curtain, portiere, fixed or movable partition or other contrivance or device, unless such part of the room so enclosed or subdivided shall contain a separate window as herein required, and shall have a floor area of not less than eighty square feet.
Page 257 - ... said place where fat boiling is done are made safe by fireproof materials around the same, and there shall be no openings either by door or window...
Page 140 - ... in the proportion of one part of cement, two parts of sand and four parts of stone or gravel, or in such proportion as to produce a maximum density.
Page 28 - When a doubt arises as to the safe sustaining power of the earth upon which a building is to be erected the...