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The Alberta Building Code 2006 was established by the Building Technical Council, a technical council of the Safety Codes Council, [15] after consultation with municipal authorities, provincial government departments, associations, other affected parties and Code users. The Code is published for Alberta by the National Research Council of Canada.
A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for construction objects such as buildings and non-building structures. Buildings must conform to the code to obtain planning permission , usually from a local council.
The guidelines provide additional detail than what is present in the current code and supports conformance to CAN/CSA 128.1 Design and Installation of Non-Potable Water Systems/Maintenance and Field Testing of Non-Potable Water Systems. The Alberta Building Code and the National Plumbing Code requirements have precedence over these guidelines.
Alberta building and structure stubs (2 C, 150 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Alberta" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
All three aforementioned examples are issued as guideline documents, which are then used by their Provinces and Bundesländer, respectively, as a baseline to author their own building codes, such as the Ontario Building Code (OBC) and fire codes, such as the Alberta Fire Code (AFC), respectively, which must then, in turn, also be adopted by the ...
Edmonton's first true skyscraper, and the tallest building in Western Canada for five years, was the CN Tower, built in 1966. A building boom did not really begin until the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 , which prompted construction of many of the city's current tall buildings (17 of the top 20, as of 2019).
The interior of the 48-room house is decorated with Spanish mahogany, Italian marble, stained glass windows and doors, and hand-painted images of Alberta flora and fauna. [5] The mansion was built of sandstone per the municipal building code as a result of the Calgary Fire of 1886. [6]
The Icon Towers are a complex of two residential towers in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The north tower, with 35 floors, has a height of 112 metres (367 ft) and the south tower, with 30 floors, has a height of 92 metres (302 ft). [2] Tower I was completed in 2009, and II was completed in 2010.