Glossary
Key terms related to the Saudi Building Code and compliance review.
- Saudi Building Code (SBC)
- The set of technical requirements governing building design and construction in the Kingdom.
- SBC 201
- The part covering general building requirements.
- SBC 801
- The part covering fire protection.
- Compliance
- A drawing meeting the code's requirements.
- Non-compliance point
- A drawing element that fails a code requirement.
- Approving authority
- The competent entity that approves the project before construction.
- Semantic building model
- A digital representation of a building's elements, properties, and relationships, extracted from the drawing.
- Deterministic finding
- A finding that reproduces itself for the same inputs every time.
- Saudi Council of Engineers (SCE)
- The body that licenses engineers authorized to certify drawings.
- Needs an engineer's check
- A result where the drawing alone is not enough to judge the requirement, so an engineer needs to look at it.
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