What is a Uniform Building Code and what does it have to do with mold?
During the last century, building standards were developed to assist builders and architects to design and build structures that met the needs of those who used them. One major flaw which developed during this period was the idea that you could apply a single building standard to a wide area of the United States. This code eventually came to be most commonly known as the Uniform Building Code. There are several variations of building codes and some of them were developed to provide information relevant to specific areas of the country. The one we are most familiar with is called the Southern Building Code. During the recent past, new materials came on the market that contained synthetic materials and bonding agents which continued to release gasses such as formaldehyde into the living space long after they were installed. As far as we know this alone did not cause many problems until the energy crunch of the 1970’s caused the building industry to “tighten the envelope”. Replacing singl
