Codes and Standards
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer Content: February 3-9, 2023
The most viewed content from the past week covered codes and standards, upgrading storage, performance-based design solutions and medical gas storage
Codes, standards that are important to consulting engineers
MEP engineers must design engineered building systems based on several codes and standards
Back to basics: Medical gas storage under NFPA 99
This covers the basics of medical gas storage and the requirements for health care spaces detailed in NFPA 99
Offices codes and standards change, accommodating new work styles
To appeal to various clients and work styles, office building codes and standards are shifting
Codes, standards cause health care building design model to shift
As hospitals and health care codes and standards evolve, the designs and technologies must change.
Manufacturing and industrial building codes and standards trends
Several new and retrofit manufacturing building projects show trends in codes and standards changing
Codes and standards drive trends, changes in data center design
Several codes and standards are pushing the engineered systems in data centers in different directions
How NFPA changes its codes and standards
NFPA updates codes and standards on a regular basis, typically every three years
Consulting-Specifying Engineer most-viewed codes and standards articles in 2022
Read the best articles about codes and standards including NFPA 72-2022, emergency lighting, lighting code compliance, hospital design and more.
Why updated building codes have cities seeing green
State and local governments are leading the way as major metropolitan areas adopt green building criteria as policy to mitigate the built environment’s impact on climate change.