The Building Law of the City of Boston: Being Acts of 1907, Chapter 550, as Amended, Also General and Special Acts Relating to Buildings and Their Maintenance, Use and Occupancy (Classic Reprint) by Boston Boston (Paperback / softback, 2016)
Excerpt from The Building Law of the City of Boston: Being Acts of 1907, Chapter 550, as Amended, Also General and Special Acts Relating to Buildings and Their Maintenance, Use and Occupancy Par. 4. Any requirement necessary for the strength or stability of any proposed structure or for the safety of the occupants thereof, t specifically covered by this act, shall be determined by the commissioner, subject to appeal. Par. 5. Testing. The commissioner may order load ing tests to be made, at the expense of the owner, on any structure or part thereof, at such time and in such manner as will satisfactorily demonstrate to him that the unit stresses in any materials do t' exceed those permitted under this act. Concrete construction shall be capable of bearing a live and dead load equivalent to twice that for which it was designed without causing permanent deformation. Par. 6. N 0 such test on the structure shall be required, however, until tice thereof in writing has been given by the commissioner to the person to whom the building permit was issued. Par. 7. Load Test. When the strength of any oor construction cant be determined by the methods pre scribed in this section or by the application of accepted engineering formulas, the safe uniformly distributed carry ing capacity shall be taken as one sixth of the total load causing failure to a full-sized construction with the load applied at two points, each at one third of the span from the ends of the span. 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 techlogy 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.