National Building Code: PD 1096

• Presidential Decree (P.D.) No. 1096


  Adopting a National Building Code of the Philippines (NBCP) thereby revising Republic Act Numbered Sixty-Five Hundred Forty-One (R.A. No. 6541)
• The country's accelerating economic and physical development, coupled with urbanization and population growth, makes imperative the formulation and adoption of a uniform building code which shall embody up-to-date and modern technical knowledge on building design, construction, use, occupancy and maintenance
• Republic Act No. 6541, entitled "An Act to Ordain and Institute a National Building Code of the Philippines", does not conform with the developmental goals and infrastructure program of the Government and does not adequately provide for all the technological requirements of buildings and structures, in terms of up-to-date design and construction standards and criteria
• In the formulation of a new national building code, it is the desire and policy of the Government to avail of and harness the technical expertise and professional know-how to men not only in the public but in the private sectors as well
• Ferdinand E. Marcos, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby order and decree the revision of Republic Act. No. 6541