[Bcna-announce] Fwd: Free Wood Deck Inspections Begin Monday

[Jesse Fiske]

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From: Barrick, Ric <BARRICK at charlottesville.org>
Date: Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Subject: Free Wood Deck Inspections Begin Monday
To: "Barrick, Ric" <BARRICK at charlottesville.org>


 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA – America will celebrate Building Safety Week
next week from *May 3 through 9*. The theme is *“Building Safety: Where You
Live, Work and Play.”* The City of Charlottesville’s Neighborhood
Development Services building inspectors are participating by offering, free
of charge, safety inspections of outdoor decks in the City.

First observed in 1980, *Building Safety Week *annually raises public
awareness of critical safety issues affecting every person, regardless of
age or occupation. These entail the structural soundness of the buildings
where we live and work, reliability of fire prevention and suppression
systems, plumbing and mechanical systems, accessibility, energy efficiency
and sustainability.

Recent crane failures at high rise buildings in the US and night club
overcrowding disasters are extreme examples of the importance of building
safety. Residential deck failures unfortunately occur each summer due to
overcrowding and faulty construction and maintenance. The City will offer a
courtesy wood deck inspection during Building Safety Week (May 3-9). To sign
up, go online to Charlottesville.org and press Online Services. An inspector
will respond and leave a written report at your front door. *We will arrive
between 8 AM and 4 PM and let you know we are there*. We are not able to
give an exact time because we are also performing the new construction
inspections requested each day.

Building and fire inspectors, plan reviewers, and others in the City of
Charlottesville* *work to ensure the safety of the structures in which all
of us live, work, attend school, worship and play. These officials provide
the first line of defense against building disasters. We are silent but
vigilant guardians who work daily to ensure safety in the built environment.

Building codes are available at Jefferson Madison Regional Library at 201
East Market Street and www2.iccsafe.org/states/Virginia. The website codes
include Virginia amendments to the national codes. There are separate codes
for single family dwellings and commercial buildings.

*The City of Charlottesville is a member of the International Code Council.
The sponsor of Building Safety Week, the Code Council develops the most
widely used building safety and fire prevention codes in the nation. Each
Charlottesville inspector is also a member of the statewide building code
professional organization, Virginia Building Code Officials Association. Tom
Elliott, is the Building Code Official, and Denise Burgess, Darin Clements &
Francis Vineyard are Building Inspectors for the City of Charlottesville. *





*Ric Barrick*

Director of Communications

City of Charlottesville, VA

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