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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1913
Page
8
Special notice outlines city wide ordinance regulating construction alteration and removal in San Antonio. It establishes mayoral appointment of building inspectors sets permit requirements for new and altered structures and details filing plan specifications and approval process with timelines and record keeping.
City ordinances govern business district construction with fences, planks, and protected walks. It restricts material storage, dictates guardrails, red lights, and overhead coverings while detailing definitions for building types and terms such as apartment houses and tenement houses.
Special notice outlining structural provisions for buildings including material quality cement and steel, calculation of stresses, floor and roof loads, column strength, footings, soil bearing, safe loads for masonry, wind design, and strength of materials with prescribed safety factors and testing requirements.
The article outlines minimum brick wall thicknesses for various building types, party wall rules, bonding, linings, and parapet standards. It covers piers, chimneys, chases, hollow brick usage, and fire wall openings, with sprinkler requirements and limitations on wall projections between structures.
Section 44 requires theaters schools hotels and large apartment blocks to be built with mill or slow-burning or fireproof construction. Section 45 specifies structural dimensions materials and fireproof features for mill buildings including floors girders beams and fire doors. Section 46 defines slow-burning construction with metal lath plaster fireproofed ceilings and hollow space fire-stopping and double floors.
Eight story limits apply for stores and factories with fireproof construction. Exterior window frames must be metal. interior components may be metal or fireproof material. Fireproof partitions require iron studs. stairs use brick, stone, concrete or iron. Columns demand brick or concrete encasement. girders require brick or terra cotta casing and spacing. Floor arches and filling specify brick, hollow tile or concrete with proper rises and thickness. Incasing columns and girders enforces four inch fireproof covering with two inch minimums for flanges. Painting rules apply to riveted metal. reinforced concrete defined and described.
Building rules require minimum concrete cover for reinforcing bars and specify fire resisting thicknesses for reinforced concrete. Walls girders and floors must include surplus protecting concrete, joints must be designed to handle stresses, and field load tests may be demanded by the Building Inspector. Concrete mixing and placement must follow machine batch, proper curing, and formwork practices.
The ordinance requires demolition facts to be stated when planning new buildings. It mandates top down removal, wetting material to suppress dust, and ground lowering of disassembled parts. The Building Inspector may inspect and halt work and enter properties to enforce compliance, with police aiding in permit enforcement.
The text defines Foundation Wall as the wall portion below the first tier above grade and interior walls below basement floor. Fire Wall covers parapet walls above the roof and partitions for fire protection. Retaining Wall is built to resist lateral earth pressure and internal loads.
The text outlines foundations rules for brick or stone buildings, prohibits building on filled earth, requires brick or stone, iron, steel, or concrete foundations, and details protection against rust, mortar for basement walls, limits on wood piles, and minimum footing and base course thicknesses for concrete or stone foundations with allowances by the Building Inspector for small structures.
Section details guard requirements for excavations to prevent danger to life. It requires underpinning or protection at owner expense when adjacent structures exist and mandates deep, frost-proof foundations for walls, piers, and columns to safely support loads.
Section 47 outlines fireproof design requirements for buildings over 1000 seating, hotels, jails, hospitals and other tall or large structures. Walls must be brick stone or concrete with no wood beams. floors and roofs use steel or reinforced concrete, with noncombustible partitions and ceilings.
Building rules specify brick or combustible free chimneys, wall thicknesses, flue sizing, and fireproofing. It covers brickwork, lining, support from foundations, and safe clearance for chimneys on new and existing structures. It also details trimmer arches, plastering, hearth dimensions, and mantel materials for safe heating appliances.
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