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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1913
Page
9
City of San Antonio outlines preliminary requirements for building permits, inspector appointments, and plan approvals. It details application musts, plan filing, cost thresholds, and permit expiration if work does not commence within six months.
Public notice outlines rules for demolishing frame buildings in San Antonio. It requires plans to state if any existing structure will be demolished and mandates top-down removal with dust suppression. The Building Inspector may suspend work for violations and police must report permits and enforce compliance.
Building operations in the business district require a tight board fence from lot line to lot line with a temporary plank walk when streets are unpaved. Guards, red lights, restricted sidewalk occupancy, and roof coverings over sidewalks are mandated. Definitions of apartment house, hotel, public building, and structural terms accompany extensive load and material strength rules for safe construction.
The document lists working stresses for various materials including cast iron steel and wood, and provides allowable loads for columns walls piers and wind resistance. It covers ratios lengths and bracing requirements plus minimum wall thicknesses and bonding rules for brickwork and stone facing in multi story buildings.
Describes terms for building structures including Foundation Wall Fire Wall and Retaining Wall. Foundation Wall is the wall portion below the first tier above grade. Fire Wall includes parapet walls above the roof and partitions for fire protection. Retaining Wall resists lateral earth pressure and prevents cave-ins.
Special Notice outlines that foundations must not be built on filled earth and must be proportioned to loads. It requires brick, stone, iron, steel, or concrete bases with protective measures for metal, cement mortar for above grade walls, and wood piles cut below water. Footings must be sized to soil and load with specific thicknesses and clear widening.
The text requires excavations for buildings to be guarded to prevent danger, be sheath-piled if needed, and protect adjoining property at the excavator’s expense. It mandates wall, pier, and column excavations extend below frost depth to solid, safe foundations for loads.
The ordinance outlines material restrictions and construction rules for walls, parapets, chases, and openings. It sets minimum thicknesses for exterior and party walls, requires cement mortar, governs hollow brick interiors, and details chases and recess limitations. It also defines floor area limits between brick fire walls, sprinkler requirements, and fireproofing criteria for mill and slow burning constructions.
The code requires fireproof construction for buildings over five stories or seventy feet, including schools jails hospitals and hotels. Walls of brick stone concrete or steel with non wood floors and roofs, using iron or steel beams and fireproof fillings, with no combustible partitions.
The text outlines fireproof construction standards for high buildings including materials for walls floors and ceilings, steel and iron column protection, brickwork brick or terra cotta enclosures, arch types for floor construction, and painting requirements. It specifies limits on height occupancy and details on insulation and incasing for structural members.
Detailed rules govern reinforced concrete and concrete steel construction including protection of steel, minimum thicknesses, anchorage and centering, mixing, forms, and curing. Specifications demand monolithic ribs with slabs, avoidance of freezing, load testing by the Building Inspector, and strict supervision by a competent foreman to ensure structural integrity and safety.
The document outlines requirements for chimneys flues and heating appliances in new and altered buildings. It specifies brickwork thicknesses fireproof lining requirements and support standards for chimneys and flues including conditions for stone iron and terra cotta linings. It also covers smoke flue dimensions trimmer arches hearth support and related construction practices.
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