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    grannysmallz posted the thread Small Building in Canada.
    Hi, Can a "Small Building" Designer work on a suite in a building larger than 600m2 and have more than 3 storeys? Thanks!
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    LR419 replied to the thread Fire wall opening protection.
    The owner might have requested a "fire wall" without understanding the difference between fire wall, fire barrier, and fire partition...
  • arwat23
    arwat23 replied to the thread Hippie commune shut down.
    That's one of my biggest peeves when it comes to people who aren't in the industry (the dude in the article). They blow things way out...
  • arwat23
    arwat23 reacted to tmurray's post in the thread Hippie commune shut down with Like Like.
    There are a lot of benefits to letting someone set their own timeline for compliance (including milestones), when they deviate from the...
  • arwat23
    arwat23 reacted to Yankee Chronicler's post in the thread Hippie commune shut down with Like Like.
    Hmmm ... Somebody has not been paying attention. In my state, people who thumb their noses at the building code can be fined and go to...
  • arwat23
    arwat23 reacted to Joe.B's post in the thread Hippie commune shut down with Like Like.
    Yes and no. There was a lot of effort by staff to enforce, but community pushback and political balance delayed and/or denied...
  • arwat23
    arwat23 reacted to BN4537's post in the thread Hippie commune shut down with Like Like.
    From here, and only reading the article, it looks like a classic result of code officials confusing "being nice" (a good thing) with...
  • BN4537
    BN4537 reacted to tmurray's post in the thread Hippie commune shut down with Like Like.
    There are a lot of benefits to letting someone set their own timeline for compliance (including milestones), when they deviate from the...
  • BN4537
    BN4537 reacted to Joe.B's post in the thread Hippie commune shut down with Like Like.
    Yes and no. There was a lot of effort by staff to enforce, but community pushback and political balance delayed and/or denied...
  • ICE
    ICE replied to the thread Hippie commune shut down.
    Twenty-five years into it they decided to get excited about shutting it down. The article says that the County is required to find...
  • T
    tmurray replied to the thread Hippie commune shut down.
    There are a lot of benefits to letting someone set their own timeline for compliance (including milestones), when they deviate from the...
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    A tenant is taking a full floor of the 4th floor of a 4 story building and removing the common area corridors to access the exit stairs...
  • Joe.B
    Joe.B replied to the thread Hippie commune shut down.
    Yes and no. There was a lot of effort by staff to enforce, but community pushback and political balance delayed and/or denied...
  • BN4537
    BN4537 replied to the thread Hippie commune shut down.
    From here, and only reading the article, it looks like a classic result of code officials confusing "being nice" (a good thing) with...
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    tmurray replied to the thread Thoughts On This.
    I transitioned a department from almost entirely paper to entirely digital. It took 10 years. Yes most of the time was digitizing the...
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