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| Purpose: |
- To provide standards and specifications for building and site systems for the ease of maintenance and establishing consistent equipment to lower life-cycle costs.
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| Objectives: |
- Provide design manuals, construction specifications, and standard construction drawings.
- Comply with applicable DOE Orders, applicable building codes, and associated regulations.
- Provide standard documents that promote green building practices that allign with the credits defined by the LEED rating system.
- Move toward industry standards that lower life cycle and initial costs.
- Apply industry "Highly Protected Risk" (HPR) standards.
- Clearly define the desired level of quality and performance
required for design, construction, and operations of buildings and infrastructure.
- Continuously improve the standards by addressing life safety, life-cycle cost, green building, energy efficiency, and security.
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Sandia National Laboratories has adopted the following Codes:
- 2009 International Building Code
- 2009 International Plumbing Code
- 2009 International Mechanical Code
- 2009 International Fire Code
- 2009 International Energy Conservation Code
- 2009 International Existing Building Code
- NFPA 70: 2008 National Electrical Code
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| Contact the Standards Program with questions about the contents of this site, the applicability of these Standards, or about the function of these web pages. |
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