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> Building codes in the US prevent disasters like the one that happened at Grenfell Towers in the UK

US building codes are pretty good and well enforced, just as they are in the UK ... but even with that, you have a Surfside condominium collapse - so not perfect.

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Surfside was almost a half-century old, so the building codes were surely different back then.

Also, building codes concern how to design and build a structure; they aren't going to help much with terrible maintenance.

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