The only source for new Code books in Oregon (that I know of) is the “Building Tech Bookstore” in Beaverton, Oregon.
My CABO book is getting pretty shopworn and Oregon recently switched to IRC (International Residential Code) so while in the Beaverton area this week, I checked out the bookstore (I usually mailorder from them) and what a great find!
Best collection of books for the construction business (Commercial and residential) I’ve ever seen. And a lot of good resources I never knew existed.
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Notchman, thanks for the info. I had been given their name earlier but had misplaced it and was just about to post a question about where to get books in Oregon. I was in Berkeley, CA a couple of weeks ago and it is always fun to puruse the Builder's Booksource on 4th St. in Berkeley (just a block a North of Spengers Fish Grotto). Of course one advantage of shopping up here is that there is no 8.25 percent sales tax in Oregon like there is in Berkeley. Powell's Technical Books in NE Portland has a fair number of titles on the technical side of building and occasionally you can save some money by finding a used book (the Architecture books are in the main Powell's) but I am sure that the Building Tech Bookstore has a lot more new books.
I did go through Powell's (amazing place, by the way) and then visited the Powell's in Beaverton, where I got directions to the Tech Book store (which was just a few blocks away).
In addition to the updated codebook, I was also looking for some good construction bookkeeping/accounting resources, along with some decent bidding and estimating resources. Found all that and more.
The bookstore is really oriented toward the business. While they do have a small selection of DIY publications, the majority is pretty no-nonsense.....(and like a lot of professional, limited print books, a little expensive).
Taunton offers some good publications, too, but I've been more than disappointed with, for example, their concrete books, which, to quote a popular phrase, are "all hat and no cattle."
Being on the West Coast, you'll appreciate this; they have a bi-lingual building construction phrase book; English to Spanish....probably a good thing in this day and age!
I did a quick run through of the on-line catalog at Building Tech Bookstore and I didn't find anything on CD's (could be there but I didn't see it). Did a quick scan on Google and a place in Eugene called Northwest Builders Net lists the 2000 IBC on CD but does not have the 2003 listed and doesn't have the Oregon supplements. They also list a "software pack" for Plan Analyst for the 2000 IRC, whatever that is. The next time I go through Eugene, I may stop in there and see just what they are about.
http://www.nwbuildnet.com/nwbn/codebooks2.html