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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
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Diaision oJ Build,ing Research
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Reprinted From
The Journal, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Vol. 35, No. 9, September l958o P.356-357
TECHNICAL PAPER No. 57
of the
DIVISION OF BUILDING RESEARCH
NRC 4958
Scottish Views on
Buildirg Codes
ROBERT
Director, DitsisionLEGGET
Building Research
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Nov 24 1958
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that might have a bearing on the safety of the public, including of course, the occupants of_buil$Jngs."-They go-on to emphasiZe this by salng thai "an adaptable-and compiehensive form of building 6ode'can-only be achiev-ed by having refard to theregard to the form of building code can only be achieved by
functions whicli the buildine-and its various functions the buildins-and its various
functions which the building and its various parts are reouired to perform (e.g. to carry speciffEd loads, to resist tie effects of'weather by the Scottish Committee in broid and general terms only. The Committee say first that "essentially it should be possible by iegula-Uommittee say tirst that "essentially it should be possible by regula-Uon to lay down requirements covering every aspect of buildins that miehi have a bdarine on the healtf, and'safeir of +he nrrhlic"
and ffre and to resisfthe transmission of heat and sound, etc.) rather than, as in the past, by dealing with the elements of a building separately - its walls, 1e6frs, and floors, etc. - and laying down inl flexible specifications for them."
who know Great Britain well, but this is stated as a fact with
sup-Building Act exempting from building control such moveable build-ings as may be speciffed in the regulations."
Turning-now to the way in which a code should be prepared the Scottish Committee, in just the same way as the Canadian Com-mittee has done, stress the attention that must be paid to the guiding principles of. unifonnitq and fl,exi'bility, A discussion of uniformity i"".rpi"r s"u"tul pag"s Lf the report, s,-pecial attention being paid tb the climatic difierences which are to be found even in different parts of Scotland. It is in this connection that the Committee makes the ffrst of their references to the National Building Code of Canada (on page 54) through an appreciative note on the Climate Part of the NEC and upon its use of maps to indicate climatic difierences. The Committee reaches the conclusion that "there can in (their) opinion, be no justiffcaUon under building control for requiring a person to build a higher standard in one town than another. There inay in one sense be-an argument for'higher standards'in one place than in another, but these are not building standards but are standards of amenity which, in (their) view, should be taken care of by planning control,"
What is m-ost encouraging, however, is to find almost every
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