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Notes:
- The contractor must keep up to date on engineering knowledge and construction practice
- Building code often follows changes by a matter of months or years
- Immediately after the 1994 earthquake, sound engineering practice required less strength value to be allocated for drywall and stucco shear wall construction than given under the then existing code
- Evolving standards of practice
- The contractor is responsible to know and follow the evolving standards of practice in all of the various areas of construction engaged in, regardless of whether the local code has caught up
