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#BuildingCode

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Lyle Solla-Yates

austinmonitor.com/stories/2025 “an important step in providing Austin with the type of housing that will facilitate safe, family oriented, walkable neighborhoods.” #Austin #housing #BuildingCode #SingleStair #MissingMiddle #design

Austin Monitor · A once-banned type of building is back in favor – and the Planning Commission approves - Austin MonitorThe Planning Commission approved several proposed amendments to an amendment of the city’s Technical Building Code during a meeting March 25, all of which address a peculiar kind of development called a “single-stair,” or “point-access” building. Point-access buildings are so…
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Lyle Solla-Yates

cbsnews.com/boston/news/little Hey, so something to think about from #BuildingCode world. Buildings in North America are generally not built for a charging station fire, so a lot of obvious safety things haven’t been done. I super get anger about all of this but please be careful with the fires. #Tesla #WildFire #OnlyYouCanStopTeslaFires

CBS News · Massachusetts Tesla charging stations intentionally set on fire, investigators believeBy Matt Schooley
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

The 2023 US 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model - Overview And Implications
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usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-h <-- USGS technical article
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doi.org/10.1177/87552930231215 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #earthquake #seismichazard #risk #hazard #shakemap #cost #economics #geology #engineeringgeology #hazardmodel #model #modeling #seismicity #faultruptures #groundmotions #probabilistic #probability #geostatistics #engineering #planning #management #mitigation #NSHM #forecast #infrastructure #publicsafety #hazardassessment #fault #faulting #structuralgeology #intensity #mercalli #buildingcode #design #publicpolicy #shakemap #engineeringrisk #future
@USGS @FEMA

A map from the 2018 United States Seismic Hazard Model showing highest hazard in red and lowest hazard in gray. Damage from various earthquakes around the U.S. is shown in the photographs. Larger versions of each photo can be found at: 2001 M6.8 Nisqually, Washington, 2014 M6.0 South Napa, California, 1994 M6.7 Northridge, California, 1975 M7.7 Kalapani, Hawaii, 2011 M5.8 Mineral, Virginia, and 2018 M7.1 Anchorage, Alaska.
maps - The 2023 Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) hazard maps of the conterminous United States showing estimates of earthquake shaking in terms of (1) 50% probability of exceedance (PE) in 50 years (somewhat likely), (b) 10% PE in 50 years (uncommon), and (c) 2% PE in 50 years (rare).
maps - Maps show faults, zones applied in the CEUS, and zones of ground-motion model (GMM) amplification for the 2023 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model. The inset map is a close-up view of the New Madrid seismic zone area (orange dashed boundary). Spatial boundaries include potentially induced earthquakes for the update and the previous 2018 zones, 2023 central and eastern United States (CEUS)–western United States (WUS) attenuation boundary update and 2018 boundary, WUS basins, and two areas of uniform seismicity. Fault sections for the WUS (Hatem et al., 2022a, 2022b) and for Alaska from Bender et al. (2021) are shown colored according to slip rates. Fault sections in the CEUS are not shown according to slip rates but all slip rates are less than 0.2 mm/year. The Alaska megathrust is represented by 14 segmented zones. Damaging earthquake locations are shown in all three maps. In addition, we show seismicity for Alaska (M7+) and Hawaii (M5+) (Petersen et al., 2021; Rukstales et al., 2021)....
maps and charts - Normalized probability density function grids of seismicity-based earthquake rates (no fault models) are displayed for (a) the western United States (WUS), (b) the central and eastern United States (CEUS), (c) Alaska, and (d) Hawaii...
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Lyle Solla-Yates

I’d quibble with the #history here (no mention of my guy Veiller and his moral crusade against prostitution, drinking, gambling, and pornography through banning multifamily housing) but there is a somewhat sanitized background here on the strange and unique “international” #buildingcode process used in the U.S. and Canada which is getting unusual attention in our worsening #housing #shortage iccsafe.org/building-safety-jo

ICCThe International Code Council’s Role in Code Development and Building Safety - ICCThe International Code Council’s code development process is built on collaboration, consensus and transparency.
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Lyle Solla-Yates

Hey Europeans, your elevators are smaller than US elevators. I am told this is unsafe because all elevators have to be big enough to hold a very large stretcher in a medical emergency. How are you handling that? Are your stretchers smaller than ours? Do you do something else to get people out of buildings to an ambulance? nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion #buildingcode #publicsafety #housing

The New York Times · Opinion | Why Are Housing Costs So High? The Elevator Can Explain Why.By Stephen Jacob Smith
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