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Building code development and enforcement have been stressed by the Pacific Coast Building Officials' Conference in the program for its tenth annual meeting, to be held at Berkeley, Calif., Oct. 5 to 10, inclusive, with an attendance of city building inspectors, building material men and others connected with the building industry. Program features announced by the president, S. P. Koch, chief building inspector of Berkeley, include Papers on subjects. o{ practical everyday interest, breakfast discussions dealing with problems of the building inspector, and committee work on code maintenance.

The most important achievement of the Pacific Coast Building Officials' Conference has been the preparation and publi.cation of the Uniform Building Code for the use of inlerested cities. Mr. Koch states that since 1927 when the code was first published it has been adopted in full as'the building ordinance of 100 ,cities and towns and has been used by numerous others in part or as a basis of revising existing building laws.

Larger cities that have adopted the entire code include Alameda, Berkeley, Fresno, Long Beach, Pasadena, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, and San Jose, Calif.; Everett and Olympia, Wash.; Salem and Eugene, -Ore. ; Austin, Dallas ind Houston, Tex. ; Tucson, Atiz.; Grand Forks, N. D.; Ilelena, Mont.; Albuquerque, N. M.; Birmingham, Ala., and Utica, N. Y.

At each annual convention the code is reviewed and proposed changes discussed and recommended with the object bf keeping lhe provisions correct, up to date and unbiased in conlormity with the latest and best mode.rn practice and research findings. At this year's convention nearly two days' time will be devoted to code maintenance work. Two new chapters will be considered, one concerning termite and fungus control, the other dealing with licensing contractors. The first mentioned is being prepared by the Termite Investigations Committee of California from data resultirtg from sev.eral years of study, research and experimentation. An electrical sign and billb'oard ordinance is also to be presented.

Continuing a practice that Mr. Koch reports as increasingly popular, four breakfast discussions of two hours each have -been provided for to allow building inspector delegates to ask questions on building code interpretation and enforcement.

Another feature will be a contest among the inspectors to determine their ability in judging lumber grades.

Papers scheduled include the following, among others: "Building material specifi'cations and tests as they affect the building inspector," by Frank L. Howard, testing engineer, Smith-Emery Co., Los Angeles; "Fire zones from an underwriter's standpoint," by L. S. Bush, chief engineer, Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific; "Condemnation of buildings ," by C.D. Wailes, Jr., chief building inspector, Long Beaih, Calif.; "Model termite control ordinances," by Earl E. Borve, executive secretary, Termite Investigations Committee of California, and "Construction for the use of gas in the modern home," by H. C. Ross, engineer of utiliiation, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco.

An entertainment program, unique because of the number of interesting and scenic places near Berkeley, is being arianged by the Berkeley entertainment coqnmittee, with special diversions for the wives of delegates.