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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