Private/public partnerships to ensure building code compliance

Author: Loesch James   Hammerman David  

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd

ISSN: 0263-2772

Source: Facilities, Vol.16, Iss.7-8, 1998-07, pp. : 180-191

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Abstract

Relates how partnering between public and private participants can transform the process of obtaining construction permits and ensuring building code compliance into a co-operative pursuit of common objectives. States use of partnering techniques between the Department of Inspections, Licenses and Permits (DILP) of Howard County, Maryland, and The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), a large research facility in Howard County. Argues that experience in designing and setting up a partnering process for building code compliance may be of interest to anyone with a large campus and a need to reconfigure and renovate space regularly; as well as to local officials responsible for monitoring building code compliance for such facilities: for example, large corporate and manufacturing facilities, hospitals, or college and university campuses.