UFC 1-200-01 DoD Building Code
Establishes use of consensus building codes (2024 IBC) with DoD-specific modifications for all military construction.
What This Publication Covers
Purpose, applicability to all DoD components, and how the UFC program modifies the International Building Code for military facilities.
Use of the IBC administrative provisions, building official roles for DoD, and the relationship between UFCs and referenced model codes.
The core of the document: chapter-by-chapter DoD amendments to the IBC covering occupancy, heights and areas, fire protection, means of egress, structural, and MEP provisions.
Points to the discipline UFCs it invokes: 3-301-01 (structural), 3-600-01 (fire protection), 3-101-01 (architecture), 4-010-01 (antiterrorism), and others.
U.S. government publication — public domain. Outline for orientation; the full text is in the PDF at USACE.
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