San Antonio Building Ordinance Regulating Construction and Permits
City builds a new regulatory code requiring a City Building Inspector and an Assistant Inspector to enforce construction, alteration and maintenance rules. Plans must be filed for projects over ten thousand dollars, with copies kept by the inspector and on site. Permits expire after six months if no work begins, and officials must approve or reject plans in a timely manner.
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Use Of Street Sidewalks And Fences In Business District
Rules govern construction in a business district including enclosing streets with tight fences, building temporary plank walks, keeping dust down, guarding excavations, and closing walks when walls grow near. Mortar beds must be protected, gutters kept clear, and red lights placed at obstructions from 6 PM to 6 AM. Temporary roofs over sidewalks required on street fronts during work.
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Demolishing Buildings and Inspector Duties in San Antonio
Ordinance details require plans filed with the Building Inspector when demolitions occur including top story removal and dust control. Inspectors may halt work, enter buildings, and police must report permits and locations to enforce code provisions.
Definitions and structural provisions for building codes
The text defines apartment houses and related terms such as areaways attic story basement and bay window and sets standards for materials, loads, and calculations. It covers factory and hotel definitions, private dwellings, public buildings, tenement houses, ton weight, veneer, wall types, and structural rules for quality, stresses, floor and roof loads, proportional loads, soil bearing, footings, strength calculations, safe loads for masonry and stone, weights of materials, and safety factors.
Structural safety rules from historic building code notes
The document lists safe stresses for timber and steel across direct compression, tension, and bending, with values for pine, spruce, oak, locust, hemlock, chestnut, and granite. It includes wind design requirements, column eccentricity handling, and excavation safety including underpinning and frost-depth foundations.
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Foundations and Footings Rules From Early Building Codes
Building code excerpt detailing foundation restrictions for brick, stone, iron, steel or concrete structures. Specifies no foundation on filled earth, proper proportioning to loads, protection for metal components, cement mortar for basements, pile cutting limits, and minimum footing and wall thicknesses with allowances for small structures.
Walls and Piers Rules for Brick Structures
A long excerpt details minimum brick wall thicknesses for different building types, loads, and heights, including party wall requirements, bond patterns, weather rules, and pier specifications. It covers fireproof and non fireproof buildings, required piers and ties, and procedures for lining existing walls with proper foundations and anchors under building inspector oversight.
Definition of foundation fire and retaining walls in construction
The text defines terms for building walls including Foundation Wall as the portion of an enclosing wall below the first tier or floor joists above grade and interior walls below basement, Fire Wall as parapet walls above the roof and partitions for fire protection, and Retaining Wall as structures resisting lateral earth pressure and internal loads.
Building Code Provisions on Walls and Fire Safety
The text outlines construction rules for walls, materials, and fire safety. It bans timber in walls where stone brick cement or iron are used and requires parapets, fire walls, and specific thicknesses. It details hollow brick use, chases for pipes, and limits on openings. It then sets area limits for division of fire walls and sprinkler requirements, followed by standards for slow burning and mill construction including structural dimensions and fireproofing.
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Association of American Steel Manufacturers
Fireproof Building Standards and Interior Fireproofing Rules
The text details fireproof construction requirements for doors windows frames and trims casings and interior finish including solid fireproof backing under floors for wooden sleepers. It sets height limits for stores warehouses and factories and prescribes solid floor finishes of stone cement tiling or equivalent when exceeding eight stories. It covers hall and permanent partitions stairs columns and girders with brick concrete terra cotta and other fireproof coverings, required fireproof encasements for columns girders and beams and mandatory painting and inspection provisions.
Reinforced concrete building fire protection standards
The text outlines fireproofing requirements for reinforced concrete and concrete steel structures, including minimum concrete thickness around reinforcing members, surplus material on surfaces, monolithic ribbed joints, and completion of full drawings before erection. It mandates machine-mixed concrete, proper centering, formwork precision, no freezing, roughened joints, and load testing post-erection under Building Inspector oversight.
Fireproof Construction Rule for Large Buildings
Section 47 requires all new buildings over certain sizes and heights to be fireproof. Walls must use brick stone Portland cement concrete iron or steel with no wood beams. Floors and roofs require rolled iron or steel with brick hollow tile hard-burnt clay porous terra cotta or reinforced concrete. Wood in partitions ceilings otherwise prohibited unless height limits allow exceptions.
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Chimneys and Flues Rigid Fireproofing Rules
Building rules prescribe brick or other noncombustible chimneys for new work. Brick walls must be eight inches thick unless linings allow four inches omitted. Flues and smoke passages require hard-burnt brick, terra cotta lining, and specific dimensions. Chimneys must extend above roofs, be fully supported, and refuse wood contact with masonry. trimmer arches and hearths must be incombustible.
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