Current version: Effective on 1 January 2017
Acceptable Solutions and Verification Methods (AS and VMs) were called compliance documents. Some still have the “compliance document” title but the AS or VMs they contain are valid and unaffected by the name change.
Comments are modified to improve guidance on “occupant load” and “slopes”.
Cited content in this document can be found on the Building CodeHub website.
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