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American Insurance Association Standards?

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We are working on a tenant improvement project where the lease language states that we are required to construct these Tenant Improvements in compliance with the applicable standards of the American Insurance Association (formerly, the National Board of Fire Underwriters).

I cannot find anything specific other than some standards that do not seem to be available that date from the 50's. NFPA is obviously the creator of current standards, but that is not in lease language.

Does anyone have any suggestions on finding these "applicable standards" other than tell them to update their lease language? haha
 
So apparently they're using a lease form that hasn't been updated since before 1984 when BOCA took up publishing the National Building Code after the American Insurance Association (formerly National Board of FIre Underwriters [NBFU]) stopped publishing it. BOCA then combined their code, the Basic Building Code, with the National Building Code to create the Basic/National Building Code published in 1984.

In essence, there haven't been any "standards of the American Insurance Association" for 35 years.
 
Everything in a lease is negotiable. Ask the party of the first part to provide the referenced document, or else issue an amendment to the lease that clarifies.
 
should you have familiarized yourself with the requirements before signing the lease?
 
What does your agreement with them say, did you know of this requirement prior to signing?
 
Hasn't the AIA been replaced with the APCIA (American Property Casualty Insurance Assoc.)?
 
We are attempting to understand what would need to be done to comply with the lease language the tenant agreed too. looks like not much as the last standard that was developed was from the 50's
 
Comply using the transitive property: American Insurance Association = BOCA and BOCA = ICC; therefore, American Insurance Association = ICC.

Comply with the IBC.
 
We are talking about a contractual obligation not a government obligation so in the context of the original question the CBC is irrelevant unless you can infer it is being referred to. Rather than guessing the Owner should be asked to provide clarification as to what it means.
 
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