The City of Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety along with Los Angeles County Building and Safety Division, in cooperation with major jurisdictions in the region, led an effort to create uniformity of Building Codes and regulation in the entire region. This is an exciting regulatory streamlining effort that:

1. Creates uniformity of building, plumbing, mechanical and electrical codes in most of the jurisdictions in the region.

2. Reduces the total number of local amendments to the codes from over 1000 to less than 50 (96% reduction in local amendments).

3. Has received support from 85 jurisdictions representing over 98% of the population in Los Angeles County.

4. Over 58 jurisdictions have actively participated in formulation and implementation of this program.

5. Major jurisdictions in the region have been active participants in the program including: City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Glendale, Pasadena, Burbank, and Santa Monica.

6. With construction valuation of over $5 billion in the region, conservatively assuming that this program produces a 1% construction cost savings, there will be an estimated cost saving of $50 million per year.

Phase I: Uniform Adoption - for each three-year adoption cycle.  First commencing in 1998, review of the model codes to be adopted by California in 2002 is being finalized

Phase II: view and download Uniform Interpretations and Handouts continually being developed by LARUCP

Scope
Uniform Building Code
Uniform Plumbing Code
Uniform Mechanical Code
National Electrical Code

Steering Committee
Andrew Adelman, Superintendent of Building, City of Los Angeles
John Kelly, Building Official, County of Los Angeles
Stuart Tom, Building Official, City of Glendale

Awards
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