DOB offers primer for City's new construction codes.Buildings Commissioner Patricia J. Lancaster, FAIA FAIA Florida Association of Insurance Agents FAIA Food Additives and Ingredients Association (Kent, UK) FAIA Fellow, American Institute of Architects (honorary position) , launched a citywide training initiative to provide members of the industry and the public with a working knowledge of the new NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City Construction Codes. The initiative includes training sessions focused on the differences between the new NYC Construction Codes and the current NYC Building Code. The initiative is designed to ensure the stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. who will use the Codes on a daily basis have a solid understanding of the new Codes before they go into effect on July 1, 2008. The Department's outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. initiative will focus on training staff at professional organizations within the industry so that they may in turn train their own memberships. The Department will also update its website in the coming weeks to provide training materials for industry members to educate themselves. In these ways, the Department expects to leverage public expertise to achieve the greatest impact possible. The new NYC Construction Codes, enacted by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Bloomberg A major global provider of 24-hour financial news and information including real-time and historic price data, financials data, trading news and analyst coverage, as well as general news and sports. in July, were modeled after the International Building Code and modified to meet the unique needs of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's dense urban environment. The Codes will go into effect on July 1, 2008; however professionals will have the option to use either the old NYC Building Code or the new NYC Construction Codes for the first year. Beginning July 1, 2009, the new NYC Construction Codes will be mandated for all new construction. |
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