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As I sat through a seminar on construction, the presenter said something that I found rather annoying. He stated that the building code is the worst building you could possibly build. The statement was misleading, but I did understand his intent and it was not for the betterment of the industry or public safety. He was clearly attempting to influence the audience into believing that a building constructed to meet code was simply not good enough or barely passable.
Soon after, I attended another seminar where a different presenter went even further; he stated that merely meeting code could put you in a liable position with regards to construction defects. He even had a graph demonstrating that the code required 2-inch overlap for building paper is problematic. The data demonstrated that a water column would rise 3 inches in just a 40 mile per hour wind-driven rainstorm.