building code

1. 1.

   set of standards established and enforced by local government for the structural safety of buildings

   Broadercode

   law

Questions about building code

What does building code mean?

building code means "set of standards established and enforced by local government for the structural safety of buildings".

Is building code a common word?

building code is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.