Revised Wind Load Provision in the Building Statutes

Abstract

This paper describes the revised wind load provision of the Building Statutes. The Building Standard Law that is the fundamental one in the Building Statutes and the basic things including the objective of the Statutes, basic performance requirements on buildings and etc. are prescribed in it. It was revised in 1998 and declared that technical regulations should been prescribed with the performance based forms. Following the revision, the Building Standard Law Enforcement Order and Notifications of Ministry of Construction that form the technical regulations including design load provisions were revised in 2000. Wind load provision was revised along with the other provisions. In this paper, the revised wind load provision is presented as well as the revision works