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the difference between a building and a controlled fall.
means agreed technical rules for how structures must be designed, built, and inspected so they don't kill anyone.
from born from disasters — building codes trace to the code of hammurabi, which threatened to execute builders whose houses collapsed on owners, a strong incentive system by any measure.
hammurabi's clausebuilder dies if house collapses and kills owner
chicago fire1871 blaze rewrote american fire codes overnight
not globalevery country, sometimes every city, sets its own
living documentcodes update after every major structural failure