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New MA State Building Code Seventh Edition will start to be enforced January 2003.
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Anything significant?
Yea lots of changes.
but things like stair rise/run, etc that most would go Huh? major departures.
*Not adopting the international code? How provincial.
*Although I havent seen the new code I suspect some of the international code will be in it with some changes in spans and energy code.
*I can see wanting to do their own energy codes, that's very environmental and therefore very political. But gravity is pretty much the same everywhere, so why would they want to go their own way on spans? -- J.S.
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New MA State Building Code Seventh Edition will start to be enforced January 2003.