Chapter 16A — STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Section 1604A — GENERAL DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
2025 California Building Code (Title 24, Part 2) · 2025 edition · ingested 2026-07-07 · California
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1604 A .1 General. Building, structures and parts thereof shall be designed and constructed in accordance with strength design, load and resistance factor design, allowable stress design, empirical design or conventional construction methods, as permitted by the applicable material chapters and referenced standards. 1604 A .2 Strength. Buildings and other structures, and parts thereof, shall be designed and constructed to support safely the factored loads in load combinations defined in this code without exceeding the appropriate strength limit states for the materials of construction. on Jul…