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Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day

Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day

September 1st is Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day1!

Building codes have been around for longer than most people realize in the course of human history.

The first known building code was written in 1758 B.C. in Babylon by King Hammurabi, more famously known for his Code of Hammurabi which was a set of 282 rules that established standards for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice2.

King Hammurabi
A carving of King Hammurabi3
Louvre Museum, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

King Hammurabi’s building code outlined the groundwork for design and construction and contained penalties for laborers if their work did not meet these guidelines.

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The first official building codes were implemented in the United States in 1625 in regards to the fire safety of roofing materials. By the year 2000, the various code organizations in the U.S. were consolidated into the International Code Council (ICC) and the first I-codes were published in the year 2000.

The International Codes (I-Codes), developed by the International Code Council, are a family of fifteen coordinated, modern building safety codes that help ensure the engineering of safe, sustainable, affordable, and resilient structures.4

In modern times, Building and Code professionals have an extremely detail-oriented job and are committed to keeping human lives safer by ensuring buildings comply with ever-evolving building codes, and for that, we celebrate them on this special day. 

Happy Building and Code staff appreciation day to everyone in this highly specialized industry!


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Sources:

1 https://nationaltoday.com/building-and-code-staff-appreciation-day/
2 https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/hammurabi
3 Louvre Museum, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
4 https://www.iccsafe.org/products-and-services/i-codes/the-i-codes/