PERFORMANCE-BASED BUILDING CODES: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE LEVELS OF SAFETY?

Performance-based building codes have been under development in various countries for the last two decades. The United States has been one of the last major countries to start such an effort, but such development is well underway here, with the notable landmark being the issuance of the first draft of the IBC (International Building Code) performance-track code in 1998 [1]. Simply put, performance-base