The conservancy contends that the mayor's plan runs afoul of regulations governing building-code basics like fire prevention, adequate heating, air-conditioning and soundproofing, and that it would require destructively invasive electrical work, plumbing and other construction barred by the building's status as a landmark.
Both the presentations and the questions from members of the audience, many of them engineers, exposed the roiling uncertainty that the collapses have produced in the technical community over whether the standards and codes that govern building design should be altered to deal with the possibility of terrorist attacks.
But since the attack on the World Trade Center, city officials have been examining whether the current fire and building codes governing construction standards, as well as fuel storage in urban areas, are adequate in light of new realities.
It contributed $100,000 to the event, he says, partly with an eye toward potential changes to building codes governing construction using these materials.
The code sets out the regulations governing all building construction in New York City -- not just administrative requirements such as when a particular type of permit or a certificate of occupancy is needed, but technical standards.
Suprabha Agarwal, who became director of the Archives in July 2010, tried to install air-conditioning but ran against the strict heritage laws governing the building.
But Senate Republicans say the attempt to use the blackout to reopen the debate over deregulation is a ruse, intended to distract attention from what they say is the Assembly's slowness to adopt a new law governing the building of power plants.
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Om-Ah-Hum's requests were based on feng shui, the Chinese system of beliefs that governs building design, the calendar and numbers, among other things, and which is followed by many people in other cultures, particularly in East Asia.
