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UpCodes

@upcodes

6 years

We are being sued by the International Code Council. Our message to ICC: Stop trying to copyright the law. Stop squashing innovation in this space. @IntlCodeCouncil

Can the law be copyrighted? | TechCrunch

UpCodes wants to fix one of the building industry’s biggest headaches by streamlining code compliance. But the Y Combinator-backed startup now faces a

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@upcodes

5 years

UpCodes AI is ready, after over a year of development, we've reached v1.0. 💥🐧 Finds egress and ADA violations in Revit models.

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@upcodes

4 years

🚀 Major breakthrough — Judge Marrero ruled that "the law is in the public domain" 🚀 Just 9 days after their loss, as a Plan B, ICC brought another baseless lawsuit against UpCodes. 👺 We won't stop fighting to keep the law free. ⚖️

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@upcodes

4 years

ICC sent out email saying UpCodes is "harming the Code Council's ability to continue to fund the development of the codes." In reality, majority of ICC’s revenue is from program services, which do not rely on profiting by limiting access to the law. #LawIsFree #ShameOnICC 1/2

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@upcodes

4 years

"Beyond doubt, state laws are not copyrightable." -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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@upcodes

5 years

About to drop a big feature we've been working on since last summer. About a week out. Will make compliance much easier. Hint: this is something another company (that you'd recognize) tried to do in the past but got shut down hard by ICC's legal threats.

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@upcodes

4 years

Introducing: 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞 Compare codes between jurisdictions/years. More here:

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@upcodes

4 years

Excited to announce that we've raised more funds. We'll be doubling or tripling our team this year which means more features and more codes. 🐣🐔🚀

Building-code compliance startup UpCodes gets $3.36M in pre-Series A funding | TechCrunch

UpCodes, a startup that develops building-code compliance tools, announced today it has raised $3.36 million in pre-Series A funding. This brings its

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@upcodes

1 year

🎊 Good news we're finally sharing! 🎊 We defeated @nfpa 's attempt to remove laws we host. Seems @IntlCodeCouncil 's not the only one thinking they own the law. We'll fight for as long as it takes and continue standing up to bullies. ✊⚖️🚀 #LawIsFree #ShameOnICC #NayToNFPA

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@upcodes

4 years

Here's what the content on UpCodes looks like. Each dot is a separate, like a chapter of a code. The lines are links.

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@upcodes

4 years

All 3 SC justices writing in GA case agree on 1 thing: 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬: no one can own the law 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: statutes and regulations cannot be copyrighted 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠: Beyond doubt, state laws are not copyrightable.

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@upcodes

5 years

After almost 2 years of litigation, we've submitted our Motion for Summary Judgement! ⚖️🗽 Makes for some good bedtime reading if you want to check it out:

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@upcodes

4 years

Here's a sign from NY, makes you wonder what went down for them to start introducing their town like this to visitors.

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@upcodes

1 year

🎉 Another victory for the "no one can own the law" camp! 🎊 #LawIsFree #ShameOnICC #NayToNFPA

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@EFF

1 year

VICTORY! Technical standards like fire & electrical codes developed by private organizations but incorporated into public law can be disseminated without any liability for copyright infringement, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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@upcodes

1 year

📣 Big News! Meet UpCodes Copilot, your AI-powered code research assistant. It's designed to provide tailored responses and relevant code sections to your project-specific questions 🧠💡

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@upcodes

5 years

Canada backtracks on charging for access to the law. Well done! 🇨🇦⚖️ "Online versions of the B.C. Building Codes are now available free of charge, and nearly 5,000 people who purchased the code on or after Sept. 5, 2018, will soon get a refund."

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@upcodes

3 years

How can you spend spend $5.3M in 2018 on your litigation team to try to kill innovation in the industry and own the law, pay your exec a $654,000 salary and then claim tax-emempt non-profit status? 💰👺 #LawIsFree #ShameOnICC

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@upcodes

5 years

The @IntlCodeCouncil sent a letter to users today from their CEO. () Full of lies. Claims UpCodes is "illegally selling access to the I-Codes". The laws on UpCodes are all free and ICC knows it, that's why they're trying shut us down 🤮

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@upcodes

5 years

Came across this case law today. So we've known since the 19th century that you can't copyright law, yet here we are in the 21st century getting sued for that? Lame.

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@upcodes

3 years

After months of development, we've shipped Calculators 1.0! No more beta. 💻🏗️🏙️🕺💃 ✅ Below grade stories ✅ Mezzanines ✅ Podium construction ✅ Reordering spaces ✅ New calculators (stairway widths, CA plumbing, etc) ✅ Improved .xlsx and Explainer exports ✅ Mass timber

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@upcodes

4 years

Great article by @constructdive about Supreme Court case. "The court was clear that no one can own the law. That’s good news for everyone who cares about the rule of law"

Construction code purveyor calls Supreme Court's ruling that annotated code can't be copyrighted...

The court's decision could have an impact on other similar cases, like the International Code Council's lawsuit against online code provider Upcodes, which heralded the decision.

www.constructiondive.com

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@upcodes

5 years

Fun fact: UpCodes which employs 10 people, and serves the law to 250,000+ people has an annual operating budget (incl. salaries) smaller than the ICC CEO's salary. 🤔 @IntlCodeCouncil

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@upcodes

3 years

Woohoo, we hit 1K Twitter followers! 🎊 Thanks everyone who has been following our story, mentioning us and sending support! 🙏

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@upcodes

1 year

Dall-E 3's attempt to recreate one of our explanatory diagrams. Would this be useful to add to our site?

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@upcodes

4 years

Finally got our homebase jurisdiction! SF building codes are live!

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@upcodes

5 years

UpCodes AI v1.3 is live. Adding Revit 2020 support was a bit of a doozy, but we have that now. Also fixed the results clearing when changing documents and support for lots of new modelcraft (thanks for the user feedback!).

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@upcodes

2 months

We're now in our 8th year of the law publishers' war against us. ⚔️ They've lost every single ruling trying to stop us from giving Americans free access to the law. ⚖️🇺🇸 #BanalityOfEvil #NonProfitGreed

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@upcodes

4 years

Here's what our attorney, Joe Gratz, had to say in the amicus brief he submitted to the Supreme Court in the GA case. Respect to the Supreme Court for making an eminently sensible decision in that case! 🧑‍⚖️🚀

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@upcodes

4 years

Code Compare now works on most codes, not just building code. 📚🔍 Here's California vs Alabama Fire Code:

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@upcodes

5 years

We've shipped! 🚀 The 2 new features are "Code Calculators" and "Customized Codebook" Check it out! It's in beta, so all feedback is welcome.

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@upcodes

5 years

Submitted motions exactly 4 months ago, so marking with some lovely case law (BOCA v. Code Technology). BOCA (which later formed into ICC) lost this case in the 1st Circuit in the '80s.

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@upcodes

1 year

If you haven't heard... UpCodes Copilot is now live 🚀 Your AI-powered code-research assistant 🤖 Learn more: #buildingcodes #AEC

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@upcodes

5 years

It almost feels to easy.. Canada suddenly gets free building codes? And refunds?! No 3-decade-long, multi-million-dollar legal battle against powerful, vested interests? @IntlCodeCouncil thanks for not being in Canada. Will make innovating there 10x easier.

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@upcodes

5 years

Excited to have ICC Inc. v. UpCodes featured in ENR!

Who Owns The Building Code? A Tech Startup's Challenge

The International Code Council is defending its copyright.

www.enr.com

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@upcodes

4 years

We now have Chicago codes. We'll have Code Compare working with them shortly. @AIAChicago

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@upcodes

1 year

We’re at #A23 and ready for you to come through! Come by Booth 968 starting tomorrow to learn how #Copilot modernizes code compliance! Grab some swag and meet the team!

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@upcodes

3 months

🎊 The publishers big push on a bill that aims to give them a monopoly on the law failed yesterday in the House vote! 🎉 Huge win for anyone who thinks that no one owns the law. Their wicked efforts will likely continue given how relentless they've been in the past. UpCodes

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@upcodes

3 months

📣 Help keep the law free. UpCodes was started to help building professionals, homeowners and others comply with their legal requirements. After years of repeatedly failing in the courts — including the Supreme Court saying "no one can own the law" — the publishers are now

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@upcodes

2 years

Fun fact: we have a team of 16 hard-working folks on our Content and QA teams whose job it is to keep the content up-to-date and integrate new amendments. 💪🔥 Also, we just released the Houston codes! 1,942 amendments integrated. #HoustonCodes

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@upcodes

5 years

After almost 2 years of litigation in ICC v UpCodes, we're near the end (of the district case at least). Filed our Response today (last step of Motion for Summary Judgement ). Read it here:

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@upcodes

4 years

@randydeutsch @_p_antonio This is a great result. UpCodes is only possible thanks to organizations like the @eff and folks like Corynne McSherry, Peter Veeck and many others. Looking forward to seeing more "reg-tech" innovation in architecture after this decision.

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@upcodes

3 years

Apparently has decided to offer the law for free too, in their own special way. 😆

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@upcodes

4 years

And their outlandish executive salaries make them hard to believe -- CEO makes $654,000/yr, more than six times the median non-profit CEO salary. 🤔 2/2

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@upcodes

5 years

Outside the UpCodes HQ, flash flood 😬

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@upcodes

4 years

We're hiring: • 2 software engineers • 1 operations manager • 1 building code expert • 1 content manager 🚀 (previous experience is required except for content manager, which is a fairly unique role)

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@upcodes

3 years

Just shipped Seattle codes! 🌧️🌲

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@upcodes

3 years

Great to see Hawaii using color in their codes. Why has it taken so long to have technicolor codes? 🤔

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@upcodes

5 years

Great in-depth coverage of @IntlCodeCouncil 's case against us. ⚖️ "If you are legally bound to follow rules of the government, and you will face civil and criminal penalties if you don’t, you have to be able to read those rules."

The Architect's Newspaper

@archpaper

5 years

The International Code Council is embroiled in a lawsuit against the startup UpCodes, and the end result could affect how architects access building codes. In this deep dive, AN exams where each party stands.

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@upcodes

6 years

Great article about @IntlCodeCouncil 's lawsuit against us. @archinect #LawIsFree #ShameOnICC

Founders of UpCodes, the spellcheck for construction, sued for republishing building codes

The non-profit organization responsible for developing building codes has sued the startup UpCodes, alleging the company of copyright infringement for republishing the many laws and regulations...

archinect.com

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@upcodes

5 years

Working on the LA codes. So far, integrated 1,055 amendments to the base California codes. @AIALosAngeles

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@upcodes

3 years

Big raise from our friends at Higharc. Great to see more VC dollars going to architecture tech!

Higharc

@HigharcHomes

3 years

Today we are excited to announce our $21 million Series A funding round, led by @sparkcapital . We'll be investing heavily in growing our team by hiring across all departments. Join us and help shape the future of homebuilding!

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@upcodes

5 years

What type construction is this?

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@upcodes

3 years

We're thinking of skipping our next financing round and instead turning our most popular diagram into an NFT. Any takers? 😆

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@upcodes

5 years

The new Oregon building code (2019 OSSC) was a real doozy weighing in at 2,288 amended section. All done though! 🤪

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@upcodes

6 years

V0.11 is live with bathroom turning radius, sink/urinal clear floor space. What checks do you want us to add?

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@upcodes

5 years

There’s no reason for re-work, if we can eliminate that confusion, we can eliminate a lot of wasted effort and wasted money. Nice write up by @AECNextTech :

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@upcodes

5 years

@IntlCodeCouncil ICC says "UpCodes cannot guarantee that it has the most accurate, up-to-date information on its website". How does that make any sense? We are only place where all the codes are kept up-to-date with all the amendments integrated natively into the code.

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@upcodes

2 years

Phoenix codes are now live! 1,974 amendments integrated 🤯 Fire Code was the most heavily amended one 🔥

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@upcodes

7 months

🚀 We're excited to announce Products Library ⚡ on UpCodes! Access an integrated ecosystem of products, assemblies, and codes to better understand how compliance requirements inform product selection.

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@upcodes

4 years

If we added this code, would anyone use it?

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@upcodes

4 years

ICC second lawsuit alleges false advertising, noting less than 2 dozen errors. During an audit this summer, we found over 400 sections that either had an error or was not fully up-to-date on their site. 😡

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@upcodes

5 years

We've submitted our Opposition to @IntlCodeCouncil 's Motion against us. Gives a glimpse into how nasty this lawsuit is, surprising coming from a "non-profit".

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@upcodes

5 years

@IntlCodeCouncil ICC says "We welcome ideas to help make compliance with codes and standards easier". Bull. We've now had 5 different people / startups reach out to us to lend their support after having been shut down by ICC for trying to innovate on the codes.

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@upcodes

5 years

UpCodes AI v1.0 is about 2 weeks out. It'll have: • Full redesign to see what checks passed • Limit checks to selected elements • Only apply certain checks • Fixing lots of false positives Anything else we should add?

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@upcodes

5 years

Nice thing about this part of the lawsuit is there's negligible legal fees, so we're able to focus all our resources on a big new feature we've been working on for last couple months. Complying with codes will hopefully get much easier soon...

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@upcodes

2 years

Amazing that after our study in Summer 2020 of ICC's accuracy and up-to-dateness, where we published 400+ issues, many of these still haven't been fixed! 🤔 Do they just not care about having accurate and up-to-date codes?

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@upcodes

4 years

New, shorter explainer video in case you want to refresh on the different features we offer:

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@upcodes

5 years

We've created a page to help raise awareness of @IntlCodeCouncil 's lawsuit against us:

UpCodes | Our Fight to Keep the Law Free

We believe the law should be free. Learn how we’re pushing back by defending a lawsuit from the International Code Council and how you can help.

up.codes

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@upcodes

5 years

Now both sides wait for a ruling. It all comes down to the one question that the judge will have to answer: Can the law be copyrighted?

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@upcodes

4 years

"There’s soap-opera level drama happening in an unlikely space: the world of building codes."

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@upcodes

5 years

I guess Kanye doesn't use UpCodes. 😬

Kanye West May Be Forced to Tear Down Dome-Like Structures

Kanye West may be forced to tear down the dome-like structures he's been building.

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@upcodes

1 year

Being at #A23 @AIANational in SF was a blast! Exhibiting at the show was awesome for the team! Loved meeting customers and making connections with new ones! Glad we got to show off #Copilot and hear how our users are leveraging our platform for their code research! Can’t wait

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@upcodes

3 years

We're hiring! ✨ Content Manager ✨ If you know a hard-working and talented person who wants to join a small, passionate team, send them our way!

UpCodes | Careers

We’re looking for talented and motivated people who can help us build easy-to-use compliance and product research tools. Learn about our culture and explore open positions.

up.codes

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@upcodes

3 years

Great news for all of us who believe in free law! 🏦⚖️🎊 TL;DR: You used to have to buy court documents from the gov't 👺, now they'll be free! 😌

"Free PACER" Bill Advances Through Senate Judiciary Unanimously - Fix the Court

The Senate Judiciary Committee today by voice vote advanced the Open Courts Act (S. 2614), a bill that would modernize the federal judiciary’s case management system and — finally — make access to...

fixthecourt.com

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@upcodes

3 years

New in the California July 1, 2021 supplement, escape rooms 🥷

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@upcodes

4 years

Got this nice user feedback. Fun fact: UpCodes has 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗱 its software engineering department size since 2019. Expect us to start moving a lot faster. 🚀

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@upcodes

3 years

Thinking of trying a startup? Hear about how UpCodes cofounder, Scott, transitioned from architecture to architecture-tech.

54: The Spellcheck For Buildings | Angelneers

Construction is a massive complex $1.3 trillion industry in the United States. As one of the least digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. Upcodes is a...

www.angelneers.com

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@upcodes

2 months

A large portion of the work UpCodes does is standing up to bullies.

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@upcodes

5 years

"why would we allow the official law to be hidden behind a pay wall?" -- Justice Neil Gorsuch, during a recent Supreme Court oral argument

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@upcodes

2 years

💯🎉🙌

sean mcguire

@seanw_m

2 years

@duckbldg get upcodes. will change your life

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@upcodes

6 years

Great coverage of the ICC v UpCodes case in the most recent podcast from @TheConTechCrew . "What they're upset about is that a company has made it easy to access the law" Check it out! (episode #164 )

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@upcodes

5 years

T minus 1 week for Replies to the Oppositions to the Motions in ICC, Inc. v UpCodes. 💥 After that, the judge can either make a ruling, require an oral argument (just the lawyers) or require a full trial.

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@upcodes

3 years

We're working on some big upgrades to the calculators that we've had a lot of feature requests for. We'll be supporting: • below grade stories • horizontal assemblies • mezzanines Any other improvements to existing calculators that you'd like to see? 🤔

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@upcodes

5 years

We'll be at AIA in Vegas. Almost the whole team, come say hi. Our CEO is lonely and needs people to talk to. Also, we're gonna have some pretty great swag. None of those silly pins. First 3 people to mention this tweet get a free shirt.

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@upcodes

2 months

Another win for open access to the law 🚀 The 5th Circuit denied CSA's petition for a rehearing of their defeat by PS Knight. ⚖️ #LawIsFree #ShameOnICC #NayToNFPA #NoWayCSA

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@upcodes

2 years

😎

Brian Payne

@brianmpayne

2 years

I can't wait to see what @upcodes does with Chat GPT now that they have an entire database of current codes.

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@upcodes

3 years

We've added support for mezzanines and below-grade stories to our calculators 🤓

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@upcodes

5 years

Nice note from a user today. We appreciate every time someone writes in to support us and always share with the whole team. It makes a difference.

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@upcodes

5 years

We're going to be hiring for a UX designer. If you know anyone who wants to work at a fast-moving startup with a large stash of toilet paper, send them our way!

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@upcodes

6 years

Exactly. In addition to affecting architects, homeowners and small business owners (all of whom having to stay compliant with building codes), this has implications way beyond the built world.

Yury Molodtsov ⚡️

@y_molodtsov

6 years

That is clearly absurd and a negative outcome for UpCodes might be an extremely bad precedent for multiple industries that would slash innovations.

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@upcodes

5 years

Site will be unavailable briefly for DB maintenance. For those who use the code for bedtime reading, hang tight, will be back in ~10 minutes... hopefully.

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@upcodes

5 years

Los Angeles codes are live after a big effort from the team to integrate 4,293 amendments. @AIALosAngeles

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@upcodes

4 years

@georgevaldes @michlschwrtz @MonographHQ @HyparAEC @TestFitInc What's neat is that since architecture tech is a relatively small industry (compared to construction tech), the companies all tend to know each other and help each other out. UpCodes has gotten help at various points from all the startups listed above as well as others.

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@upcodes

5 years

Stocking up on Costco protein bars for final push of a big feature we've been working on this summer. Stay tuned...

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@upcodes

4 years

This sounds familiar...

andrew arruda 🎸

@AndrewArruda

4 years

ROSS is filing antitrust claims against Thomson Reuters and West Publishing. As explained in our filing, Westlaw’s business model is to build walls around the public law to unfairly maintain control over the $8 billion-dollar legal research marketplace.

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@upcodes

5 years

NY 2020 codes are live 🏙️

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@upcodes

3 years

Not sure what to do this weekend? You could spend some time on UpCodes making sure your residential aircraft hangar is code compliant. 🛩️

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@upcodes

5 years

Heard from some sources that ICC is making it a priority to get amendments integrated into the base codes just like UpCodes. Just wish there were more examples of them spending money on doing good and less on crushing innovation.

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@upcodes

5 years

One of the biggest feedbacks we've had is: "I want to run X, Y and Z checks on this part of building". Like, "I want to run ADA checks on this bathroom". The redesign will allow that.

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@upcodes

3 years

Interesting that some of the dangerous designs here aren't against code. Maybe the first provision of the code should be to use basic common sense. 🤨

19 Dangerous Design Choices That Are Downright Deadly

You can't convince me these things weren't built to kill.

www.buzzfeed.com

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