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Sarah Fleming, President of the Cal Poly Chapter AIAS, and Ben Hait-Campbell, Vice President, share their perspective of the Cal Poly Architecture program today, fill us in on the AIAS, and tell us what happened to the F-Stop!

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We are now on the official Cal Poly Architecture department webpage and we remember that the Burj Kalifa was “finished”.

Special guest Antonio Avila, B’Arch ’92  AIA LEED AP. an associate with Darden Architects, joins us for a great conversation about the recession, the journey of the emerging professional, and how Cal Poly prepares you for entering the work force.

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For those not familiar with it, the California Title 24 Building Standards Code consistes of 10 fairly hefty binders containing over 4,614 pages of small text.

• Part 1: Administrative Code (231 pages)
• Part 2: Building Code (2 Volumes, aprox. 1,600 pages)
• Part 3: Electrical Code (829 pages)
• Part 4: Mechanical Code (419 pages)
• Part 5: Plumbing Code (516 pages)
• Part 6: Energy Code (110 pages)
• Part 7: Elevator Safety Construction Code (merged with other parts)
• Part 8: Historical Building Code (40 pages)
• Part 9: Fire Code (579 pages)
• Part 10: Existing Building Code (32 pages)
• Part 11: Green Building Standards Code (80 pages)
• Part 12: Referenced Standards Code (178 pages)

The entire set costs a little over $1,000 and Architects are expected to know or at least be aware of all of it.   Not surprisingly, a lot of our time is spent scouring over the code trying to make sence of it all.

Yesterday a coworker of mine and I stumbled across this little gem of the building code when designing the threshold into an accessible shower stall for an apartment building.

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