Building Code of the City of East Orange, New Jersey: Approved April 18, 19101910 - 76 pages |
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approved auditorium bearing Building Committee building or structure built of brick cab or car cast-iron ceilings cement blocks chimney City Council City of East columns combustible concrete concrete-steel constructed crete curtain walls distant sixty feet dollars doors dwelling East Orange eight inches thick elevator exceed exit factor of safety fire escape fire limits fire-proof material floor beams flue foundation walls four inches frame building girders inches in thickness incombustible material Inspector of Buildings iron or steel least LENGTH UNLIMITED less than eight less than four less than twelve lime line of Main lintels load metal lath North Arlington notice one-half inches ordinance owner party walls permit person piers pipes placed plaster board plates Portland cement posts pounds per square rolled steel roof Section side six inches smoke pipe southerly line spector square inch stairs sufficient terial terra cotta thereof three feet twelve inches thick twenty-five feet width wood
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Page 56 - ... and every building in whole or in part occupied or used as a school or place of instruction or assembly, and every office building...
Page 22 - Where ranging and capping timbers are laid on piles for foundations, they shall be of hard wood not less than six inches thick and properly joined together, and their tops laid below the lowest water line.
Page 19 - Walls are deemed to be divided into distinct Lengths by Return Walls, and the Length of every Wall is measured from the Centre of one Return Wall to the Centre of another...
Page 22 - The footing or base course shall be of stone or concrete, or both, or of concrete and stepped-up brickwork, of sufficient thickness and area to safely bear the weight to be imposed thereon.
Page 17 - Portland cement shall be considered to mean such cement as will, when tested neat, after one day set in air be capable of sustaining without rupture a tensile strain of at least 120 pounds per square inch, and after one day in air and six days in water be capable of sustaining without rupture a tensile strain of at least 300 pounds per square inch.
Page 22 - When required, concrete shall be rammed down in the interspaces between the heads of the piles to a depth and thickness of not less than 12 inches and for 1 foot in width outside of the piles.
Page 45 - ... plates of equal strength by the full size of the bearings. In case the opening is less than twelve feet, the stone blocks may be five inches in thickness, or cast iron plates of equal strength by the full size of the bearings...
Page 21 - All excavations for buildings shall be properly guarded and protected so as to prevent the same from becoming dangerous to life or limb...
Page 47 - Where columns are used to support iron or steel girders carrying inclosure walls, the said columns shall be of cast iron, wrought iron, or rolled steel, and...
Page 43 - ... so arranged as to spacing and length of beams that the load to be supported by them, together with the weights of the materials used in the construction of the said floors, shall not cause a greater deflection of the said beams than one-thirtieth of an inch per foot of span under the total load. The beams shall be tied together at intervals of not more than eight times the depth of the beam with suitable tie-rods.