Sprinklers a must in new homes
The International Code Council, the nation’s leading building-code body, has adopted a residential fire sprinkler requirement for all new one- and two-bedroom houses and town houses, beginning in 2009. The council included a grace period of two years to implement the rule.
-- Diane Wedner
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