History
The Constitution of Canada includes the regulation of building construction as a provincial responsibility. In a few cases municipalities have been given the historic right of writing their own building code. In the early years of regulating building construction this caused a patchwork of building codes across Canada.
In 1941 the federal government of Canada published the first National Building Code. This was adopted by the various provinces and municipalities in Canada during the next 20 years.
Since 1960 there has been a revised document about every five years up to 1995. The 2000 edition of the building code was supposed to be an objective or performance-based building. However, this took considerably longer to write than foreseen and the next edition of the National Building Code of Canada was not published until 2005. The 2010 National Model Construction Codes was published on November 29, 2010.
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