Quantifying the Savings from Building Code Victories

摘要

For a number of years, powerful lobbying groups representing product manufacturers and specialty service providers have used the COde process as a means to promote their services or write mandatory language requiring their products. Many of these proposed changes are portrayed as provisions necessary to improve safety and quality in the built environment. More often than not, the data shows that these proposals are solutions looking for problems. BOMA International defends the commmercial real estate industry by working with code officials to ensure that only necesssary changes are approved.