The provisions of the Uniform Building Code are now published in three volumes for the 1997 edition to help building inspectors, plans examiners, architects and structural designers locate provisions applicable to their respective fields without the need to search through all provisions.

Volume 1 (available separately) contains the administrative, fire- and life-safety, and field inspection provisions, including all nonstructural provisions and those structural provisions necessary for field inspections.

Volume 2 (available separately) contains provisions for structural engineering design, including those design provisions formerly in the UBC Standards. These design provisions have been incorporated into the applicable chapter as divisions of the chapter.

Volume 3 contains the remaining material, testing and installation standards previously published in the UBC Standards.

Do you need Volume Three of the Uniform Building Code?
Volume Three of the Uniform Building Code contains the following material, testing and installation standards:
2-1: Noncombustible Material - Tests; 4-1: Proscenium Fire Safety Curtains; 7-1: Fire Tests of Building Construction; 7-2: Fire Tests of Door Assemblies; 7-3: Tinclad Fire Doors; 7-4: Fire Tests of Window Assemblies; 7-5: Fire Tests of Through-penetration Fire Stops; 7-6: Thickness, Density Determination and Cohesion/Adhesion for Spray-applied Fire-resistive Material; 7-7: Methods for Calculating Fire Resistance of Steel, Concrete, Wood, Concrete Masonry and Clay Masonry Construction; 7-8: Horizontal Sliding Fire Doors Used in a Means of Egress; 8-1: Test Method for Surface-burning Characteristics of Building Materials; 8-2: Standard Test Method for Evaluating Room Fire Growth Contribution of Textile Wall Covering; 9-1: Installation of Sprinkler Systems; 9-2: Standpipe Systems; 9-3: Installation of Sprinkler Systems; 10-1: Power-operated Egress Doors; 10-2: Stairway Identification; 10-3: Exit Ladder Device; 10-4: Panic Hardware; 14-1: Kraft Waterproof Building Paper; 14-2: Vinyl Siding; 15-1: Roofing Aggregates; 15-2: Test Standard for Determining the Fire Retardancy of Roof Assemblies; 15-3: Wood Shakes; 15-4: Wood Shingles; 15-5: Roof Tile; 15-6: Modified Bitumen, Thermoplastic and Thermoset Membranes Used for Roof Coverings; 15-7: Automatic Smoke and Heat Vents; 18-1: Soils Classification; 18-2: Expansion Index Test; 19-1: Welding Reinforcing Steel, Metal Inserts and Connections in Reinforced Concrete Construction; 19-2: Mill-mixed Gypsum Concrete and Poured Gypsum Roof Diagrams; 21-1: Building Brick, Facing Brick and Hollow Brick (Made from Clay or Shale); 21-2: Calcium Silicate Face Brick (Sand-Lime Brick); 21-3: Concrete Building Brick; 21-4: Hollow and Solid Load-bearing Concrete Masonry Units; 21-5: Nonload-bearing Concrete Masonry Units; 21-6: In-place Masonry Shear Tests; 21-7: Tests of Anchors in Unreinforced Masonry Walls; 21-9: Unburned Clay Masonry Units and Standard Methods of Sampling and Testing Unburned Clay Masonry Units; 21-10: Joint Reinforcement for Masonry; 21-11: Cement, Masonry; 21-12: Quicklime for Structural Purposes; 21-13: Hydrated Lime for Masonry Purposes; 21-14: Mortar Cement; 21-15: Mortar for Unit Masonry and Reinforced Masonry Other than Gypsum; 21-16: Field Tests Specimens for Mortar; 21-17: Test Method for Compressive Strength of Masonry Prisms; 21-18: Method of Sampling and Testing Grout; 21-19: Grout for Masonry; 21-20: Standard Test Method for Flexural Bond Strength of Mortar Cement; 22-1: Material Specifications for Structural Steel; 23-1: Classification, Definition, Methods of Grading and Development of Design Values for All Species of Lumber; 23-2: Construction and Industrial Plywood; 23-3: Performance Standard for Wood-based Structural-use Panels; 23-4: Fire-retardant-treated Wood Tests on Durability and Hygroscopic Properties; 23-5 Fire-retardant-treated Wood; 24-1: Flat Glass; 24-2: Safety Glazing; 25-1: Plastic Cement; 25-2: Metal Suspension Systems for Acoustical Tile and for Lay-in Panel Ceilings; 26-1: Test Method for the Evaluation of Thermal Barriers; 26-3: Room Fire Test Standard for Interior of Foam Plastic Systems; 26-4: Method of Test for the Evaluation of Flammability Characteristics of Exterior, Nonload-bearing Wall Panel Assemblies Using Foam Plastic Insulation; 26-5: Chamber Method of Test for Measuring the Density of Smoke from the Burning or Decomposition of Plastic Materials; 26-6: Ignition Properties of Plastics; 26-7: Method of Test for Determining Classification of Approved Light-transmitting Plastics; 26-8: Room Fire Test Standard for Garage Doors Using Foam Plastic Insulation; 26-9: Method of Test for the Evaluation of Flammability Characteristics of Exterior, Nonload-bearing Wall Assemblies Containing Combustible Components Using the Intermediate-scale, Multistory Test Apparatus; 31-1: Flame-retardant Membranes; Unit Conversion Tables.