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• • Building accessibility—Minnesota Accessibility Code • Building egress, building construction —Uniform Building Code • Fire protection systems—Uniform Building Code • Food service—Minnesota Food Code • Energy code compliance —Minnesota Energy Code • HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning)— Uniform Mechanical Code • Electrical systems —National Electric Code and Minnesota Energy Code Office evaluations—Following the on-site evaluation,each building was then reviewed,based on on-site data, age of construction, building usage and occupancy, square footage, and known improvements (from building permit data), and an assessment was made regarding compliance with current mechanical, electrical, and energy codes. A basic code review was also completed regarding the potential need for additional egress (basement stairways, for example), sprinkler systems, or elevators. Deficiency Cost—Costs to correct identified deficiencies were determined by using R. S. Means Cost Data and our professional judgement and experience. Actual construction costs are affected by many factors (bidding climate, size of project, etc.). Due to the nature of this assessment, we were only able to • generalize the scope of work for each correction; that is to say that detailed plans, quantities, and qualities of materials were not possible to be known. Our approach to this matter was to determine a preliminary cost projection suitable to the level of detail that is known. This process was similar to our typical approach for a cost projection that may be given to an owner during a schematic design stage of a project. Costs to correct deficiencies were computed for each building and compared to the building replacement cost to determine if the 15% requirement was met. The total number of buildings determined to be "structurally substandard" in this manner was compared to the total number of buildings in the district to determine if the 50% requirement was met. Individual building reports are available for review at the offices of SEH and Briggs & Morgan, St. Paul,Minnesota. Technical Conditions Resources—the following list represents the current building codes applicable to new buildings used in the Building Deficiency review: 1997 Uniform Building Code MN 1341 —Minnesota Accessibility Code, Chapter 1341 (1999) 2000 Minnesota Energy Code, Chapters 7672, 7674, or 7676 Minnesota Food Code, Chapter 4626 (1998) 1999 National Electric Code 1997 Uniform Mechanical Code 8