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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1913
Page
11
A city wide ordinance sets preliminary requirements and permits for building work in San Antonio. It appoints a City Building Inspector and Assistant, requires plans and specifications for projects, outlines filing procedures, permit validity, and inspector oversight of approvals or rejections with deadlines and records.
This page defines building site rules in a business district including fences walks gutters and scaffolding safety standards. It details temporary coverings, lighting requirements, moving buildings, material quality, load calculations, and wall definitions for various building types.
The document lists safe stresses per square inch for cast iron steel wrought iron wood and other materials, including compression and tension values for poles posts beams and various stone and concrete mixes. It further prescribes wind design requirements requiring structures to resist 30 pounds per square foot and to limit overturning moments to 75 percent of the structure's stability, with provisions for additional bracing as needed.
Special Notice Foundations Section 81 restricts building on filled earth. Foundations must match loads and use brick stone iron steel or concrete with corrosion protection for metal. Basement walls and three feet above grade laid in cement mortar. Wood piles cut below water line not loaded beyond forty thousand pounds. Footings must suit soil, concrete not less than twelve inches thick, stone walls eight to ten inches thick, and wider than wall bottoms. Inspectors may loosen thickness for light loads on small structures.
The article outlines brick wall thickness rules by building class and height, party wall requirements, and bearing wall limits for various stories. It covers fortifying walls with linings, bond courses, and anchor requirements, plus piers, foundations, and weather protection, to ensure structural integrity.
The text outlines construction requirements including prohibition of timber in walls where stone or brick are standard, minimum parapet wall thicknesses, use of hollow bricks, restrictions on chases for pipes, and detailed brick fire wall specifications for stores, warehouses, and factories. It also covers openings, curtain walls, and mandatory automatic sprinklers for certain configurations and occupied properties.
A historical ordinance explains mill and slow burning building standards. It specifies which structures must use fireproof methods, including theaters schools jails hotels and five story or taller buildings. Details cover framing floors planking roof coverings and fireproof closures for elevators stairs and partitions.
Eight stories or one hundred feet marks a limit for non stores uses. above this height walls, floors and frames must use fireproof materials. Exterior frames may be metal, interior may be metal clad or other approved fireproof finish. Staircases, partitions, and girders require brick or concrete encasings and specific clearances. Columns must be jacketed with brickwork or terra cotta, with cement grout between walls and supports. Girders and beams receive fireproof casing, arches to span floors, and restricted pipe placements.
The document outlines fireproofing and reinforcement rules for concrete structures. It covers concrete thickness around reinforcing bars, protection of steel, use of centering, mixing procedures, formwork, curing, temperature handling, erection requirements, joint care, and mandatory load testing to ensure safety in reinforced concrete and concrete-steel constructions.
Section 56 requires new or altered chimneys to be brick stone or noncombustible, with eight inch walls unless well-burnt clay or terra cotta reduces to four inches. Flues must be eight by eight inches, and eight by twelve for certain stoves, with interior lining. Chimneys must extend at least three feet above flat roofs and two feet above pitched roofs. No wood framing against chimneys. plaster or metal lath to protect masonry. Section 57 covers hearths with trimmer arches, minimum twenty inches arch, and noncombustible mantels. heaters require hearth alignment and combustible-free surroundings.
The ordinance outlines demolition rules from inner to outer, requires plans to state any demolitions, mandates safe lowering of debris, and dust control. It assigns Building Inspector duties to inspect construction, halt violations, and regulate material use, with police enforcing permit requirements and reporting start of work.
The text defines Foundation Wall as the portion of an enclosing wall below the first tier or floor joists or beam near and above grade and any interior wall or pier below the basement floor. Fire Wall includes parapet walls above the roof and any division wall for fire protection. Retaining Wall resists lateral earth pressure and prevents cave-ins, including encroaching walls bearing internal loads.
All excavations for buildings must be guarded to prevent danger and shall be sheath-piled when needed to prevent adjoining earth from caving in. When excavations begin near existing buildings, the excavator must protect or underpin adjoining property at their expense. Walls piers and columns must extend below frost depth to solid, safe foundations.
The code requires all new buildings above 1000 seating capacity or certain tall structures to be fireproof using brick stone or cement walls and steel or iron floors and roofs. Woodwork is prohibited in partitions furrings and ceilings, with exceptions only for lower height limits.
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