出版社:International Bank for Reconstruction and Development;; World Bank
摘要:Inspecting the quality of construction is necessary to
protect those who will live or work in a building. Governments
have been concerned with such protection for
centuries. Records of Socrates’ house, built in the 4th
century BC, show the inspection requirements of his
day: “The builder shall set the joints against each other,
fitting, and before inserting the dowels he shall show the
architect all the stones to be fitting, and shall set them
true and sound and dowel them with iron dowels, two
dowels to each stone…”