Author: Patrick W. Cooke

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-09

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9780266005636

Excerpt from Selected Papers Dealing With Regulatory Concerns of Building Rehabilitation The complexities and difficulties involved.with the building rehabilitation process, however, are numerous and not easily understood. Market forces, financial considerations, governmental policy, industry structure, and regulatory activities are but a few. In the building regulatory area: many of these older buildings were constructed prior to the existence of modern building codes. Application of building codes to these buildings poses difficulties because these regulations are primarily designed for new construction. The papers contained in this Special Publication address some of the issues that building regulatory and related activities have on rehabilitation and historic preservation efforts. It is the intent that this collection of papers be used as a resource to further understanding and give some insight to the difficulties involved from.different perspectives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.