Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Enforcing Safety
Building codes are created to ensure the safety of citizens; they set out specific regulations that detail the minimum requirements for the design, building, and maintenances of structures. California, containing the largest seismically-threatened US population, has the strictest of these codes. Sounds like a recipe for success, right? Why, then, has the establishment of strict building codes NOT ensured the complete safety of citizens in California?
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I think strict building codes are not saving everyone's life because there is no such thing as an earthquake proof building. Even with the safest buildings made an earthquake strong enough can destroy is completely. The building codes are not able to prevent an earthquake, but it helps the building to have some chance of withstand an earthquake.
ReplyDeleteThe establishment of strict building codes could only increase the chance of survival or safety of the people. It is hard to predict the exact movement of an earthquake and even harder to build around the many dangers of earthquakes. So many dangers can occur other than the earthquake itself. An earthquake is just a cause to the many dangers or effects that will result in disaster.
ReplyDeleteThe strict building codes have not ensured the complete safety of citizens in California because they have to obey laws/codes. Although they keep updating the building codes, the building codes can't stop earthquakes; they can only try to limit the damage so it won't be so detrimental.
ReplyDeleteThe strict building codes could only increase the chance of survival of people. People keep putting building codes up, but that does not mean that an earthquake will stop. They can possibly try to limit/decrease the damage so it wont be severe.
ReplyDeleteThe Reason why the building codes haven't ensured full safety for citizens all depends on how strong the earthquakes hits. The buildings that are built can pass all codes to ensure safety but it can depend on also the location of a building due to older unsafe buildings or large trees near it that can fall. Lastly, it can depend on the citizen due to the way they decorate their home. It would be smart if they didn't have as many things hanging and also heavy objects near areas they can get squashed.
ReplyDeleteThe building codes may be up to date but it doesn't take into effect all of the outside influences, one of the primary factors being location. Your brand new, up to date building may be in a place where there are older buildings not up to code that would collapse with a strong enough earthquake. Another scenario would be an earthquake causing a fault scarp breaking the gas mane and a spark from a live telephone wire leads to a large fire. This is all letting alone the fact that a strong enough earthquake would take out the building anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe strict building codes are not saving everyone's life and property because the codes keep changing.People may have houses that were built years in the past that have codes that were up to date when the house was built. But in the present day those codes are not up to date so the people living in those houses have building codes that are not up to date. So the house can not withstand and earthquake as well.
ReplyDeleteBuilding codes are for saving people's lives and to keep the building standing. Most people die from earthquakes as a result of something heavy falling on them such as televisions. The engineers did their job for making buildings more safe in earthquakes, but paople themselves have to take responsibilities to make their inside homes earthquake friendly. For instance they can have a TV stand instead of having the TV hanging on the wall. This would save alot of people's lives too.
ReplyDeleteThe establishment cannot ensure the complete safety of its citizens because they are always testing new ideas for building structures. California gets a lot of earthquakes. Therefore, when a building fails during an earthquake, they find out what caused it to fail and try a new way to structurally support buildings during earthquakes. They can only try to increase the safety of its citizens, they cannot ensure their safety.
ReplyDeleteI think they're really strict with building so they can be as safe as possible. But this does not mean it will stop the earthquake from causing damage because like the guy from youtube said nothing's earthquake proof. So the codes might help a bit but there can still be major damage.
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ReplyDeleteI believe that the establishment of strict building codes do not ensure the complete safety of citizens in California because the intensity of the earthquakes change every time so the building codes must change as well. Where the earthquake happens and the types of earthquakes will still break through California's strict building codes. Nothing is perfect so maybe the building codes do help even though some people get hurt. Without the building codes, the damages might be a hundred times worse.
ReplyDeleteBuilding codes are intended to ensure the safety of the citizens, but don’t guarantee people’s safety. Nothing known to man is earthquake proof and with earthquakes come other natural disasters. In our everyday life people are at risk because most disasters are unpredictable. They haven’t ensured the safety of citizens in California because they don’t have the time, technology or the money an earthquake proof structure.
ReplyDeletestrict building codes don't ensure complete safety because no building or structure is really earthquake proof,even though they are built with good materails like wood,rubber,and reinforced concrete.
ReplyDeleteStrict building codes are not saving everyone's life and, property because nothing is earthquake proof. The codes can't stop earthquakes; they can only "try" and stop destruction. Building a building with strict codes can't stop an earthquake but it may stop some destruction.
ReplyDeleteStrict building codes are not saving people's living from earthquakes because it isn't such thing called earthquake proof. The strict codes can onlyy help the conditions of the property not stop the trembleing an shaking of the building.
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