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Monday, July 2, 2007

Shake-up In Community College Building Requirements in California

This article is from Inside Bay Area:
"It was a stealth bill," said Douglas Hohbach, president of the Structural

Engineers Association of Northern California and a principle at Hohbach-Lewin, a structural engineering firm in Palo Alto. "I was shocked as a citizen of California that something like that could be done."

That 59-word clause provides an exemption that community colleges and other parties have sought for years: the option to use the standard building code when constructing buildings at two-year colleges, instead of a stringent seismic safety code mandated by the landmark Field Act.

"This change is for the benefit of the builders, and not the benefit of the students," said Paul Neel, dean emeritus of the California Polytechnic State University's College of Architecture and the California state archiQUAKEINews 15tect from 1989 to 1991. "It's hard for me to fathom that you would gamble with safety like that."

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