Ensuring that a building design is ...

Ensuring that a building design is code-compliant can be a complicated task for architects. Whether this involves understanding the digests tracking code updates or checking designs against the digest dealing with codes can be a time-consuming proces
That is the sentiment of Wade Killefer, design principal for Santa Monica, Calif.-based Killefer Flammang Purtill Architects (KFP) who considers the plan-checking proces the same of his biggest professional headaches. To help simplify digest compliance, Killefer and Charles Barnes, director of information technology at KFP created a