Do current building codes permit building a house of cards?
That's what the Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Terrorism-Resistant Buildings (TRB) of the International Code Council suggested at a recent Washington meeting reports ENR.com
The meeting was convened by the National Institute of Building Sciences' Multihazard Mitigation Council, which is charged with translating lessons learned from the World Trade Center collapse into building codes and standards. The Chair's comments provoked strong denials from representatives of the standard writing groups, according to the article.