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Coltoff* SUtion, Tom Wednesday, Ao^ut 16. 1972 * J
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earie
'age tells .mpector, ^ ,, . 4f
City buijding codes becoming uniform
“Every final exam since 1948! All we have to do is to
review this file and we're ready I"
The various build in* codas used
by municipal fovsnunsnto
throughout the nation are moving
toward a universal cods, report
officials at the Municipal Inspec
tor* Training School hers.
Building, electrical and mechan
ical inspectors from every part
of the state are attending the
five-day program at AAM, where
the main intereet is a series of
coda workshops held every after
noon.
T. Hoyt Page, Richardaon
building official and president of
the Building Officials Association
of TOzas (BOAT), said Thursday
the codes are moving toward na
tional uniformity. Exceptions are
based on geographic and climatic
differences.
Page noted the recently-formed
Councils of American Building
Officials have organised to bring
continuity to the municipal codes.
Houston building official Dude
Parmley, BOAT first vice presi
dent, and Sherman official Jim
Andrews, BOAT second vice pres
ident, voiced the opinion that most
municipal inspectors want uni
form codes, standardised inspec
tions and a certification program
similar to the educational re
quirements for police and fire
men.
Parmley stated moat large cit
ies have training programs and
Gulf Universities will determine
effects of petroleum activities
A two-year, $1.5 million study
to determine what effects, if any,
petroleum activities have had on
the marine environment off Loui
siana will be undertaken by scien
tists of the Gulf Universities Re
search Consortium (GURC).
Scientists from W institutions,
including Dr. Sayed Z. El-Sayed
of AAM, will make the investiga
tion. TAMU is k member of the \
23-institution consortium. *
The study of Louisiana’s coast
al and continental shelf region is
funded by more than 60 compa
nies in the petroleum industry.
^Sponsoring companies w^havsy,
nBlrontrol over either tM eoHac-
UBh or interpretation olidata. ac
cording to Dr. James M. Sharp,
president and principal investi
gator for the Galveston-baaed
GURC.
Findings of the comprehensive
study will be made public.
El-Sayed, who ims conducted
oceanographic research in the
Gulf of Mexico and Antarctic
Ocean during his 11 years at
TAMU. shares organisational re
sponsibility with three other sci
entists for the study. They are
GURC council members.
He also will investigate pri
mary productivity and the stand
ing crop of phytoplankton in the
gulf. ,
The study will be of a 10 by 40
mile area including Tltnbalier Bay
in the Louisiana delta country.
The area will extend to about the
90-foot depth contour Km the con
tinental shelf.
“Particular attention will be
given to comparisons between rel
atively undisturbed sectors and
those which have experienced ex
tensive drilling and production
jover many years,’* Sharp said.
Collection of samples in the
area will begin in August.
El-Sayed, Dr. Robert J. Menxies
of Florida State University; Dr.
C. H. Oppenheimer, University of
Texas/Port Aransas, and Dr.
James Morgan,
Louisiana State
University, are in charge of se
lecting , sample sites and
mining the frequency and periods
of sampling. Dr. El-Sayed chairs
the sampling sub-committee.
He will bring data to the inves
tigation from previous Gulf pf
Mexico rqpearch when no drilling
was going on in the area. It was
obtained in 1964-66 through Na
tional Institutes of Health-funded
studies.
The TAMU oceanogrmphy pro
fessor participated in a recent
Alaminos cruise which' occupied
stations in the area while enroute
to the Eastern Gulf. Conducted
to study effects of Hurricane Ag
nes on the hydrology and nutri
ents of the gulf, it revealed mark
ed water temperature differences
with data from an earlier cruise
just before Agnes fhurned serose
the Gulf of Mexico.
El Ssyed’s primary productiv
ity work, especially in the Ant
arctic, is widely recognised. His
will bo the only investigstions of
th^ GURC study at the lower end
of the marine ecosystem.
Other scientists involved in the
GURC offshore ecology investigs-
University of
the high salaries to attract In
spectors from the craft trades.
“In smaller areas, without the
budgets, cities hire one or two
men who may not have the prop
er backgrounds in all the inspec
tion areas,” Parmley said.
Among the building problems
of intereet this year are multi
family code requirements and the
fast-growing manufactured build
ing industry.
Page said how cities work with
apartments, townhouses and con
dominium projects is of major
interest. He explained while
apartments are rented, the town-
houaee and condom inuims are
aoki, with the buyer oeming the
structure or part of the struc
ture and grounds. •
Different codes apply, he add
ed, with the problem that nn
apartment house can become a
condominium overnight.
Another intereet is new prod
ucts. Various manufacturing
companies send representatives
to explain the products and “in
dustry wants that product to he
used as it was designed to be
used,” Page insisted.
Improved building products are
also examined. For example,
Parmley related the 2 by 4 hoard
is now a standard 114 by 3 inches.
The training program is in its
third year, and Page believes
BOATs recent acceptance as the
Bulletin Board
Thursday
The Cep he id Variables Science
Fiction Club will meet Thursday
at 7:30 p.ra. in Room 146 of the
Physics Building. v
Monday
The Wildlife sad Fisheries
Science Wives Club will meet
Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the home
of Mrs. Sidney Caldwell, 4003
Windosrmere, Bryan. Plans will
be made for the “Get Acquainted
Patio Party.”
sixteenth department in the Tex
as Municipal Lsague will be of
benefit to the cities and inspec
tors.
The building inspectors organi
sation also began s seminar pro
gram thia year, with five held in
the geographical regions of Tex
as.
Page said recent court rulings
that cities can be held liable for
improper inspections has put add
ed pressure on the cities to have
property trained manpower.
In addition, the “key rate" in
surance benefits, including cred
its and penalties, have a direct af
fect on the insurance premiums
paid by the entire community.
“A lack of knowledge of the
codes is no excuse in either lia
bility or the key rate insurance
areas,” Page reported. “And the
agencies have started inspections
to make sure municipal inspectors
are doing the job right”
The officials feel association
with the Texas Municipal League
will be s big factor in future suc
cess making the inspector’s jab
more professional.
t “It puts us in the classroom
with the city fathers,” Page in
sisted.
The program continues through
Friday at the Ramada Inn.
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