Vision Vision Buildings must meet series of building codes and standards. Even small projects may have thousands of code decisions that need to be made. Buildings should be accessible and usable by all types of people regardless of their physical conditions. In case of emergency buildings should be able to be evacuated safely and in a timely fashion. Materials used in the building should be environment friendly and durable.
Codes even protect the workers during the construction process.
Codes and standards explain the performance, method, and construction of thousands of materials to build a building, which would sufficiently perform against all the difficulties and needs, listed above. Designing and construction of a building requires an unbelievable amount of knowledge and experience. Each building is a different case and should be studied very carefully. All this overwhelming data and know-how is difficult to process by the human being. Construction and material technology is changing at an ever increasing pace making the process even more difficult.