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The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is the department of the New York City government that enforces the city's building codes and zoning regulations, issues building permits, licenses, registers and disciplines certain construction trades, responds to structural emergencies and inspects over 1,000,000 new and existing buildings. [2 ...
Barclay–Vesey Building: Lower Manhattan, New York City 1927 Damaged Damage in the collapse of 7 World Trade Center 0 [15] Deutsche Bank Building: Lower Manhattan, New York City 1973 Demolished Heavily damaged from debris from the collapse of 2 World Trade Center, was later demolished 0+ [16] Fiterman Hall: Lower Manhattan, New York City 1959 ...
International Code Council. The International Code Council (ICC) is an American nonprofit standards organization, sponsored by the building trades, which was founded in 1994 through the merger of three regional model code organizations in the American construction industry. [1] The organization creates the International Building Code (IBC), a ...
New York City Administrative Code. The Administrative Code of the City of New York contains the codified local laws of New York City as enacted by the New York City Council and Mayor. [1] As of February 2023, it contains 37 titles, numbered 1 through 16, 16-A, 16-B, 17 through 20, 20-A, 21, 21-A, and 22 through 33. [2]
The ICC was a merger of three predecessor organizations which published three different building codes. [2] These were: The new ICC was intended to provide consistent standards for safe construction and eliminate differences between the three different predecessor codes. It is primarily used in the United States.
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 main purpose of building codes is to protect public health ...
270 Park Avenue, also known as the JPMorgan Chase Building, is a supertall skyscraper under construction on the East Side of the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by the firm of Foster + Partners, the skyscraper is expected to rise 1,388 feet (423 m) when completed in 2025. Photograph of immediate past building.
With a height of 1,200 feet (370 m), the Bank of America Tower is the ninth tallest building in New York City and the tenth tallest building in the United States as of 2022. The Bank of America Tower has 2.1 million square feet (200,000 m 2) of office space, much of which is occupied by Bank of America. The building consists of a seven-story ...