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CONSTRUCTION INNOVATION, Dec. 2009
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At its September meeting, the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes (CCBFC) agreed to move on a major priority: updating Code requirements for farm buildings. This decision was based on safety concerns as well as technical deficiencies in the current edition of the National Farm Building Code of Canada, given that it references the 1995 rather than the 2005 National Building Code of Canada.
The CCBFC has agreed, with advice from the Provincial/Territorial Policy Advisory Committee on Codes, to first work on updating the requirements for large farm buildings with a view to incorporating these updates into the 2015 National Building and National Fire Codes of Canada. The new requirements will be objective-based to match the format of these documents. For small farm buildings, further consultation is required to ascertain how they should be handled in the national model codes.
For more information or to provide input, please contact Philip Rizcallah at 613-993-4064 or philip.rizcallah@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca.
