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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1913
Page
25
Special notice announces an ordinance to regulate construction within San Antonio. It appoints a Building Inspector and Assistant Inspector to enforce code provisions. It outlines permit requirements, plan filings, and approval processes for new buildings or alterations, with timelines and record keeping.
The ordinance forbids moving frame buildings between zones and outlines demolition procedures. It requires statements when demolishing parts of buildings and mandates top-down removal with dust control. Building Inspector may enter sites and suspend work to enforce code, with police officers noting operations and enforcing permit requirements.
The text defines Foundation Wall as the portion of a wall below the first tier or floor joists near the grade and interior walls below the basement floor. Fire Wall refers to parapet walls above the roof and partitions dividing spaces for fire protection. Retaining Wall means walls built to resist lateral earth pressure or internal loads and to prevent caving.
The text outlines street and sidewalk building rules in the business district, including fencing, planking, safety measures, gutters, material storage limits, and required permits. It defines terms like apartment house, tenement, and office building and sets loading, footing, and strength standards for various materials and structure types.
Special notice outlines safe stresses per square inch for cast iron steel wrought iron and wood, with tables for direct and eccentric compression and tension. It specifies wind design for all structures, requiring horizontal wind pressure of thirty pounds per square foot and limiting overturning moments to seventy five percent of stability, with added bracing as needed.
The document outlines foundational rules for brick stone iron steel or concrete bases with water line safeguards and load limits. It sets minimum wall thicknesses by story height, bonding and tie requirements, weather criteria for brickwork, pier construction, and allowances for existing party walls with lining options under inspector oversight.
The text outlines structural requirements for walls in commercial and industrial buildings, including prohibition of timber in walls with stone or brick, parapet wall thickness and height, use of hollow bricks, chases for pipes, limits on wall recesses, and fire wall specifications. It specifies floor area limits between brick fire walls, conditions for sprinkler systems, and door protections for openings in fire walls.
Post and beam sizes define mill construction standards for theaters schools jails hospitals and large homes with height limits from two to five stories. Specifications cover floor planking waterproofing ceilings partitions and fireproof tower enclosures plus self closing doors and fire stoppage rules for safe structure. Slow burning construction adds metal lath plaster ceilings and doubled floors with fire stopping between joists.
The excerpt outlines fireproof construction requirements for buildings up to ten stories, including materials for floors, walls, and partitions, window frames, stair construction, column protection, and fireproofing methods. It specifies brick or brick-like casings around columns, solid fills between beams, and metal outer window frames with interior metal or metal-covered finishes, plus painting and installation rules tied to inspector approval.
Building code style directives cover concrete mix ratios, minimum thicknesses for protecting concrete, and required embeds for reinforcing rods. Specifications mandate machine mixing, proper centering and formwork, smooth interior surfaces, and securing reinforcement during placement, with tests and load verification under Building Inspector oversight.
Section 80 requires guarding excavations to prevent danger to life and limb. The excavator must underpin or safeguard adjoining property at their expense. Deep foundations extend below frost line to ensure safe support for walls and columns of brick and stone buildings.
Section 47 mandates fireproof design for buildings over 1000 seating, hotels, jails, hospitals, public stations, or over five stories or seventy feet. Walls must be brick stone or concrete with no wood beams. floors and roofs use wrought iron or steel beams with brick or tile infill or reinforced concrete. No inflammable partition wood except where height is under limit, and construction must meet Code standards.
The rules require brick or solid noncombustible chimneys in new or altered buildings with minimum wall thickness eight inches unless lined with well-burnt clay or terra cotta through to the top, and specify support, bonding, and interior lining standards. Flues must meet size requirements and be firelined. dampers, masonry, and trimmer arches must be properly constructed and noncombustible mantels installed.
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