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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1913
Page
30
City introduces preliminary requirements appointing a Building Inspector and assistant to enforce building rules. Must file detailed plans for structures over ten thousand dollars and obtain written permits before erection or alteration, with plans kept on file and approved or rejected by the Building Inspector.
Special notice outlines demolition prohibitions and procedures in San Antonio. It requires disclosure when plans include demolition and mandates top story removal before lower floors, wet dust control, and ground lowering of debris. Police must track operations, obtain permits, and assist inspectors in enforcing the ordinance.
The ordinance requires enclosed tight board fences around street work in the business district with temporary plank walks if needed, prohibits obstructions, and mandates wetting down dust. It also covers mortar bed protection, red lights, covered sidewalks, and rules for material storage and safe guarding of excavations.
The text outlines material standards and load calculations for construction including cement and structural steel, dead and live loads, floor strength by use, roof loads, column capacities, eccentric loading, soil bearing, footings, and safe bearing loads for masonry and concrete. It specifies safety factors, calculation methods, and inspector requirements.
A historic blueprint style text outlines wall thicknesses and materials for commercial structures. It lists rolled steel and cast iron components, brick and stone wall standards, wind forces, pier construction, parapet rules, and fire wall openings with sprinkler provisions. The rules specify minimum brick wall thickness by building class and height, bonding patterns, and safety features.
The document details mill and slow-burning construction rules for new or altered buildings. It covers fireproofing requirements for theaters schools jails hotels and other tall or large structures, including beam sizes floor and wall specs roof coverings and fire doors. It also outlines methods for lining existing walls and rules for elevating party walls with brick linings and anchors.
Eight stories or 100 feet maximum height for certain occupancies guided by fireproofing rules. Exterior frames of metal required above eight stories, while interior finish may be metal or metal-clad. Walls use brickwork, terra cotta or concrete with specified thicknesses and gaps filled. Floors, arches, and girders demand fireproof fillings and encasings. Columns must be protected with brick or concrete coverings, with limited block sizes. Electrical and plumbing must avoid encasing in fireproofing.
Reinforced concrete must meet fire resistence rules including minimum protecting concrete thickness, joint design, and steel protection. Mixing, placement, centering, and curing must follow strict procedures with inspector approval and load testing as required.
Building rules require brick or stone chimneys with eight inch walls unless lined with clay or terra cotta. inside flues must be hard brick with struck joints unless lined. Chimneys topped three feet on flat roofs or two feet above pitched roofs. no wood backing. minimum flue sizes eight by eight inches for smoke ducts and eight by twelve for furnaces. double-walled high temperature flues with brickwork fire mortar section. Arches and hearths require brick or iron trimmer arches, at least twenty inches wide. full width hearths for heaters. combustible mantels prohibited. plaster against masonry or metal lath.
Foundation Wall means the portion of an enclosing wall below the first tier or floor joists or beams nearest the grade line and interior walls below the basement. Fire Wall refers to parapet walls above the roof and any division for fire protection. Retaining Wall is built to resist lateral earth pressure and prevent caving, or enclosing walls resisting internal loads.
Building foundations must rest on solid earth and be sized to actual loads. Specifications cover materials brick stone iron steel or concrete and protect metal from rust. Footings and base courses require minimum thickness and width, with adjustments allowed for small structures by the Building Inspector.
Excavations for buildings must be guarded to prevent danger and shall be sheath-piled when needed to support adjacent earth. For excavations near existing buildings the excavator pays to protect or underpin adjoining property. Walls and piers must extend below frost depth to provide safe support for loads.
Building standards mandate fireproof construction for theaters over 1000 seats schools jails hospitals public stations hotels and five story or taller structures. Walls must be brick stone or cement with no wood beams and floors roofs of iron or steel with brick or tile infill or reinforced concrete.
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