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Buggy the Clown Buggy the Clown (道化のバギー Dōke no Bagī) is a fictional character of the manga and anime One Piece. He is the captain of Buggy's Band of Pirates, his first mate is Mohji the Lion Tamer and his second mate is Cabaji the Acrobat.
Buggy's Band of Pirates The Buggy Pirates (バギー海賊団, Bagī Kaizokudan) are fictional pirates from the anime and manga One Piece, led by Captain Buggy the Clown. Their captain Buggy the Clown is a former crewmate of Red-Haired Shanks and has met Whitebeard.
Bughole-induced outgassing Bughole-Induced Outgassing is a phenomenon occurring when applying a protective coating (or lining) to concrete (predominately vertically cast-in-place) where air becomes entrapped within bughole cavities and releases into or through the protective coating, thereby causing pinholes and holidays in the coating film.
Bughouse chess Bughouse Chess (also called sometimes Exchange Chess, Tag Team Chess, Double Chess, Siamese Chess, Double Bug, Tandem Chess, Transfer Chess, or simply Bughouse) is a chess variant played with two teams of two people with two chess boards playing in collaboration against each other. It is far more complex than normal chess.
Bugchasing Bugchasing (or Bug chasing) is a term, invented in the 1990s, stemming out of a subculture of gay men wanting to become infected with HIV. Bug chasers "chase" the bug by seeking sexual partners who are HIV positive for the purpose of having unprotected sex and sero-converting as a result.
Bugis Junction Bugis Junction (Chinese: 白沙浮广场) is an integrated development located at Victoria Street, Middle Road and North Bridge Road in Bugis, Downtown Core Planning Area in Singapore. The development consists of a shopping mall, an office tower and the InterContinental Singapore.
Bugis Street Bugis Street, in the city-state of Singapore, was renowned internationally from the 1950s to the 1980s for its nightly gathering of transwomen, a phenomenon which made it one of Singapore's top tourist destinations during that period.
Bugle (plant) Ajuga is a genus of about 40-50 species of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the mint family Lamiaceae, with most species native to Europe, Asia, and Africa, but also two species in southeastern Australia. They grow to 5-50 cm tall, with opposite leaves.
Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust (usually referred to simply as Buglife) is a British nature conservation charity based in Cambridgeshire, England. Its aim is to prevent invertebrate extinctions and to maintain sustainable populations of invertebrates in the United Kingdom.
Buglist Buglist is an open source Eclipse plugin for viewing Bugzilla bug entries. It allows programmers/developers to run and view the Bugzilla saved searches stored in their account without leaving their integrated development environment.
BugMeNot BugMeNot is an Internet service that provides usernames and passwords to let Internet users bypass mandatory free registration on websites. Started in August 2003 by an anonymous person, it aims to allow Internet users to access websites that have registration walls (for instance, that of The New York Times) without the requirement of compulsory registration.
Bugnes Bugnes are a culinary speciality from central-eastern France, including Lyon and Saint-Étienne, closely related to beignets. Traditionally, Lyon cold meat shops sold bugnes just before Lent, due to their high fat content.
Bugonia The word Bugonia (or 'bougonia') is Greek in origin, meaning "ox birth". It denotes the mythical practice by which bees are produced from the carcasses of dead oxen- a misunderstanding similar to the notion of 'spontaneous generation'.
Bugs (TV series) Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four seasons from April 1995 to August 1999. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films.
Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny is an Academy Award-winning fictional street-smart anthropomorphic gray rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Warner Bros., and is one of the most recognizable characters, real or imaginary, in the world.
Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears is a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short released in 1944, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Tedd Pierce. This short marks the first appearance of Jones' dysfunctional version of The Three Bears.
Bugs Bunny in Rabbit Rampage Bugs Bunny in Rabbit Rampage is a Super NES action game where the player controls Bugs Bunny as he fights traditional Looney Tunes villains in order to confront the main villain of the story, animator Daffy Duck.
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips is a Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, and released to theatres on April 22, 1944 by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation.
Bugulumbya Secondary School Bugulumbya Secondary School is a secondary school in the village of Busobya, Uganda. In June, 2005 it was announced that a consortium lead by Hewlett-Packard would transform it into Africa's first NEPAD e-school.
Bugun Liocichla The Bugun Liocichla, Liocichla bugunorum, is a passerine bird species from the Old World babbler family closely related to the Grey-faced Liocichla. First spotted in 1995, it was described as a new species in 2006 by Ramana Athreya.
Bugz Karnail Paul Pitts (January 5 1977 – May 21 1999), better known by stage names Bugz or Robert Beck, was an up-and-coming rap artist, murdered at the age of 21. He was an early member of the rap group D12 and was instrumental in their early formation.
Bugz in the Attic Bugz in the Attic is an all-star broken beat crew of DJs and producers based in West London. The collective includes Orin Walters (Afronaught), Paul Dolby (Seiji), Kaidi Tatham, Daz-I-Kue, Alex Phountzi, Cliff Scott, Mark Force, Matt Lord and Mikey Stirton.
Bugzilla Bugzilla is a Web-based general-purpose bugtracker tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project. Released as open source software by Netscape Communications in 1998, Bugzilla has been adopted by a variety of organisations for use as a defect tracker for both free software and proprietary products.
Buhe Buhe is a ceremony of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, held on August 18 (Gregorian Calendar). It involves tying a bundle of sticks together to make a chibo, and setting it on fire while singing songs outside of people's homes.
Buhl woman Buhl Woman is the name for a skeleton of a prehistoric woman found in a quarry near Buhl, Idaho, United States, in January 1989. The skeleton's age has been estimated by radiocarbon dating at 10,675 ± 95 BP (before present), which confirms this as the oldest human remain found in the Americas.
Buhriz Buhriz is an Iraqi village of about 40,000 located 25 miles north of Baghdad and 6 miles south of the major city of Baquba. The town of Buhriz is heavily agricultural, located on fertile land along the Tigris river and engaged in the cultivation of date palms, orange trees, and other crops.
Buch (crater) Buch is an old, worn crater that is located in the rugged southern highlands of the Moon. It lies to the northeast of the large Maurolycus crater, and comparably-sized BĂĽsching crater is attached to the northeast rim.
Buchan Buchan is one of the six committee areas and administrative areas of Aberdeenshire Council, Scotland. These areas were created by the council in 1996, when the Aberdeenshire unitary council area was created under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994.
Buchan oil field The Buchan Oil field is located in the Central North Sea approximately 120 miles north east of Aberdeen, Scotland, in an area known as the South Halibut Basin (Wood Mackenzie 2002). It was first located in August of 1972, two years after the issue date for those blocks.
Buchanan bus station Buchanan Bus Station is the main bus terminus in Glasgow for journeys between the city and other towns in Scotland, and international journeys. It is operated by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, who inherited it from their predecessor agency, Strathclyde Passenger Transport, who in turn acquired it from Scottish Citylink in 1993.
Buchanan Highway The Buchanan Highway, Northern Territory, Australia runs west from Dunmarra on the Stuart Highway crossing the Buntine Highway at Top Springs and eventually connecting with the Victoria Highway near Timber Creek. It is unsealed for its entire length.
Buchanan Smithy Buchanan Smithy is a small village in Buchanan in the far west of Stirling, Scotland. The current village was mostly purpose-built in the 18th century for the estate workers of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, who lived at nearby Buchanan Castle.
Buchanan Street Buchanan Street is one of the main shopping thoroughfares in Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland. It forms the central stretch of Glasgow's famous "Golden Z", with a generally more upmarket range of shops than its two neighbours Argyle Street and Sauchiehall Street.
Buchanan Street railway station Buchanan Street Station was the least known of Glasgow's four main terminal railway stations, the other three being Central, Queen St and St Enoch. It was based to the Northwest of Queen St Station and ran services to the North of Scotland.
Bucharest Stock Exchange The Bucharest Stock Exchange (Bursa de Valori BucureĹźti in Romanian) is a stock exchange in Bucharest, capital of Romania. On December 1, 2005, Bucharest's electronic over-the-counter stock market, Rasdaq, was merged with the Bucharest Stock Exchange.
Bucharest Yiddish Studio Theater The Bucharest Yiddish Studio Theater (Yiddish: Bukarester Idishe Teater Studie, BITS) was a short-lived, highly experimental Yiddish theater founded in Bucharest, Romania in 1930, under the leadership of Jacob Sternberg.
Buchasergyi Lakang Monastery Buchasergyi Lakang Monastery is a Buddhist temple that was built by King Songsten Gampo near the town of Nyingchi in eastern Tibet, China. The monastery was built in the eight century by the great Tibetan King to apparently subdue the great she - demon.
Buchberger's algorithm In computational algebraic geometry and computational commutative algebra, Buchberger's algorithm is a method of transforming a given set of generators for a polynomial ideal into a Gröbner basis with respect to some monomial order. It was invented by Austrian mathematician Bruno Buchberger.
Bucheggberg (district) Bucheggberg is one of the ten districts of the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, situated to the southwest of the canton. Together with the district of Wasseramt, it forms the Amtei (electoral district) of Wasseramt-Bucheggberg.
Buchenwald concentration camp Buchenwald concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg (the Etter Mountain) near the Etterburg (the Etter Keep) located near Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, in July 1937. The prisoners were used as slave labor in local armament factories.
Bucher's Mill Covered Bridge Bucher's Mill Covered Bridge or Butcher's Mill Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans Cocalico Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. After the Landis Mill Covered Bridge, it is the second shortest covered bridge in the county.
Bucheron Bucheron (sometimes Boucheron or Boucherondin) is a goat's milk cheese native to the Loire Valley in France. Semi-aged, ripening for 5 to 10 weeks, Bucheron is produced as short logs that are sliced and sold as small rounds in food stores.
Buchet The Buchet was a French automobile manufactured from 1910 until 1930. The product of a firm which had been known before World War I for producing automobile, aircraft, and motorcycle engines, it was first offered in a 12/20hp model with a 1996cc engine.
Buchholz relay A Buchholz relay, also called a gas relay or a sudden pressure relay, is a safety device mounted on some oil-filled power transformers and choke coils, equipped with an external overhead oil reservoir called a conservator. The Buchholz Relay is used on conservator type oil preservation systems as a protective device sensitive to events which occurs during dielectric failure inside the transformer.
Buchholz system The Buchholz system is a ranking system in chess developed by Bruno Buchholz in 1932 in order to determinate ranks in a swiss system tournament where players have the same score. It sums up the score of the players' opponents and thus favors those who have confronted better opponents.
Buchinga Buchinga is a small town in the Western Province of Kenya approximately 15 kilometers west of Kakamega and 20 kilometres east of Mumias. Buchinga was established near the intersection of the road to Kakamega and the road to Bukura.
Buchloe Buchloe () is a community raised to city status in 1954, lying in Ostallgäu district in Bavaria. Together with the neighbouring communities of Jengen, Lamerdingen and Waal, Buchloe belongs to the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("administrative community") of Buchloe.
Buchmendel Stefan Zweig's Buchmendel (1929) tells the tragic story of an eccentric but brilliant book-peddler who spends his days trading in one of Vienna’s many coffeehouses. With his encyclopaedic mind and devotion to literature, the Russian-Jewish immigrant is not only tolerated but liked and admired by both the owner of his local Café Gluck and the cultured Viennese clients with whom he interacts in the pre-war period.
Buchser High School Buchser High School was a formerly a public high school in Santa Clara, CA. Another school, Santa Clara High School now occupies Buchser High School's original campus and Santa Clara High's previous campus became Buchser Middle School.
Buchu Buchu is either of two small flowering shrubs native to South Africa, Agathosma betulina and Agathosma crenulata. The leaves of these two species, which are rich in essential oils, have traditionally been used as an herbal remedy for ailments of the gastrointestinal and urinary tracts.
Buchwald v. Paramount Buchwald v. Paramount (1990) was a breach of contract lawsuit filed and decided in California in which humorist and writer Art Buchwald alleged that Paramount Pictures stole his script idea and turned it into the 1988 movie Coming to America.
Bui Tuong Phong Bui Tuong Phong (Vietnamese: Bùi Tường Phong, 1942–1975) was a Vietnamese-born computer graphics researcher and pioneer. His works are most often indexed under his family name, Bùi, which comes before his given name by Vietnamese name convention.
Buick Centurion The Buick Centurion was sold by the Buick division of General Motors from 1971 through 1973, replacing the Buick Wildcat as the sporty rendition of Buick's full-size car. The name Centurion was a play on another Buick name, the 1937-1958 Buick Century.
Buick Enclave The Buick Enclave (and similar GMC Acadia and Saturn Outlook) is a full-size crossover SUV to be launched for the 2008 model year by the Buick division of General Motors. The three vehicles will share the new GM Lambda platform.
Buick Gran Sport The Buick Gran Sport or GS was a high-performance option package available on a number of Buick models, including the Riviera and Wildcat. A special version of one model was given the package's name as its model name.
Buick Invicta The Buick Invicta was a full-sized automobile produced by General Motors' Buick Motor Division from 1959 to 1962. The Invicta was a continuation of the Buick Century concept that mated the standard size Buick LeSabre (pre-1959, Buick Special) body with Buick's larger 401 inÂł Nailhead V8 engine, yielding what was referred to as a "banker's hotrod".
Buick Invitational The Buick Invitational, is a PGA Tour professional golf tournament played in the San Diego, California area in the early part of the Tour season, known as the "West Coast Swing." The tournament was originally known as the San Diego Open, and was noted for having singer-actor Andy Williams as a celebrity host during much of its existence.
Buick LeSabre The Buick LeSabre was a full-size car made by the Buick division of General Motors from 1959-2005. For many years, the LeSabre was considered the entry level full-size Buick, carrying the lowest base price in the Buick lineup.
Buick Limited The Buick Limited was an automobile built by the Buick Motor Division of General Motors, Flint, Michigan (USA) between 1936 and 1942 and during model year 1958. Since 1959 Buick has used the "Limited" name to denote those models which featured a high level of trim and standard options in its various model ranges.
Buick Lucerne The Buick Lucerne is a full-size car sold by the Buick division of General Motors that replaces the Park Avenue and the LeSabre in 2006. Although the rear-wheel drive GM Zeta platform was considered, the production Lucerne introduced at the Chicago Auto Show on February 9, 2005, is a front-wheel drive derivative of the G-body Buick LeSabre.
Buick Open The Buick Open is a PGA Tour golf tournament which is held at Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club in Grand Blanc, Michigan. It is usually held during the second week following The Open Championship, or two weeks prior to the PGA Championship.
Buick Rainier The Buick Rainier is a mid-size SUV from General Motors. Introduced for 2004 to replace the Oldsmobile Bravada, the Rainier is the first truck sold under the Buick marque (the unibody Rendezvous might also qualify, as it is classified by the EPA as a light truck) since the 1920s, and is the first body-on-frame V8-powered Buick since the 1996 Roadmaster.
Buick Reatta The Buick Reatta was a hand-made luxurious sports coupe produced at the Reatta Craft Centre in Lansing, Michigan and sold by the Buick division of General Motors from early 1988 to 1991. Like the Cadillac Allanté, it was based on a shortened version of the GM E platform used by the Cadillac Eldorado, Oldsmobile Toronado and particularly the Buick Riviera, with which it shared its advanced electronics and interior furnishings.
Buick Regal The Buick Regal was a mid-size car produced by General Motors' Buick division from 1973 through 2004, during which Buick also used the Century name on mid-size models; the two frequently shared bodies and powertrains.
Buick Somerset The Buick Somerset was a compact car produced by the Buick division of General Motors between 1985 and 1987. Buick had previously used the "Somerset" name as a trim-level package on the Buick Regal in the early 1980s.
Buick Sport Wagon This mid-size Buick wagon was based on the Buick Skylark model and it was built from 1964 to 1972. The 1964 to 1969 models had a "Skyroof" which consisted of 3 tinted glass panels surrounding the elevated section of the roof.
Buick Straight-8 engine The Buick Straight-8 engine was produced from 1931 to 1953 and sold in Buick automobiles. Like many American automobile makers, Buick adopted the straight-8 engine in 1931 as a more powerful alternative to the previous inline-6 engines.
Buick Terraza The Buick Terraza is a minivan from General Motors' Buick brand that was introduced in 2005. It fills the position of GM's luxury minivan that was previously filled by the Oldsmobile Silhouette until the division's demise in 2004.
Buick V8 engine Like its sister General Motors divisions, Buick produced its own family of V8 engines to replace its straight-8 engines. These engines came in many of the same displacements as those from other divisions, but were entirely different.
Buick Wildcat The Buick Wildcat was a full-size automobile produced by the Buick Division of General Motors from 1962 to 1970. For its first year, the Wildcat was a 'sub-model' within the Buick Invicta series, mating the smaller full-size two-door hardtop Buick body (known as the "sport coupe," body production code 4647) with a high-performance 325-horsepower version of the 401ci Nailhead V8, known as the Wildcat 445 for producing 445 ft·lbf of torque.
Buie Seawell Buie Seawell is a professor at the University of Denver, attorney, and former Colorado Democratic Party figure. He was born in North Carolina, the son of the state's former Attorney General, Malcolm Buie Seawell.
Build automation Build Automation is the act of scripting or automating the process of compiling computer source code into binary code. This Automated Build is in contrast to a manual build process where a person has to perform multiple, often tedious and error prone tasks.
Build engine The Build engine is a first-person shooter engine created by Ken Silverman for 3D Realms. Like Doom, the Build engine represents its world on a two-dimensional grid using closed 2D shapes called sectors, and uses simple flat objects called sprites to populate the world geometry with objects.
Build God, Then We'll Talk "Build God, Then We'll Talk" is the fifth and final official single written by Ryan Ross from Panic! at the Disco's hit album, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, including the radio-only single "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage".
Build order In strategy computer games, of both the turn-based and real-time varieties, a build order is a linear pattern of production, research, and resource management aimed at achieving a specific and specialized goal.
Build to Order Build to Order, often abbreviated as BTO and sometimes referred to as Made to Order (MTO), is a production approach products are built after a confirmed order is received for it. BTO is the oldest style of order fulfillment and is still the most appropriate approach used for highly customised or low-volume products.
Build to Stock Build to Stock, often abbreviated as BTS, is a build-ahead production approach in which production plans are driven by historical demand information in combination with sales forecast information. BTS is a typically what people associate with the industrial revolution mass production techniques, where vast quantities of goods are produced and stocked in warehouses in anticipation of demand
Build To Order Build To Order (abbrev: BTO; Chinese: 预购组屋制度) is a Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat allocation system that offers flexibility in timing and location for owners buying a New HDB flats in Singapore. Eligible buyers planning to shift into a new HDB apartment in the near future, can apply for apartments in their preferred location from specific sites launched.
Build Verification Test A Build Verification Test (BVT), also knows as Build Acceptance Test, is a set of tests run on each new build of a product to verify that the build is testable before the build is released into the hands of the test team. The build acceptance test is generally a short set of tests, which exercises the mainstream functionality of the application.
Build Your Own Bazooka Tooth Build Your Own Bazooka Tooth is an album by Aesop Rock, an American hip hop musician. This album was released in conjunction with a contest to create a remix of an Aesop Rock song using the a capellas and instrumentals in this 2-disc set.
Build-Operate-Transfer Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) is a form of project financing, wherein a private entity receives a franchise from the public sector to finance, design, construct, and operate a facility for a specified period, after which ownership is transferred back to the public sector. During the time that the project proponent operates the facility, it is allowed to charge facility users appropriate tolls, fees, rentals, and charges stated in their contract to enable the project proponent to recover its investment, and operating and maintenance expenses in the project.
BuildBot BuildBot is a software development continuous integration tool which automates the compile/test cycle required to validate changes to the project code base. It began as an alternative to the Mozilla project's Tinderbox which is easier to install and maintain.
Builder pattern The Builder Pattern is a software design pattern. The intention is to separate the construction of a complex object from its representation so that the same construction process can create different representations.
Builder pharaoh Builder pharaoh is a term applied to pharaohs who built on a massive and prolific scale, much more than the average number and scale of building project. The term usually applies to Ramesses II, but has also been applied to Hatshepsut, Sneferu, and other pharaohs.
Builder's Fantasy Builder's Fantasy was a BYOND game based off "Monster World" by Gunbuddy13, and later passed onto Sharp to continue the project. It has since been continued out and developed a long way since, and been running for roughly 5 years, changing names from Monster World, to Sharp's World, to A Builder's World, to A Building Game, to Builders Ultimate, and now as BYOND members know it, Builder's Fantasy.
Buildering Buildering (also known as urban climbing, structuring, or stegophily) is the act of climbing the outside of buildings and other urban structures. The word "buildering" is a portmanteau combining the word "building" with the climbing term "bouldering".
Builders (Farscape) The Builders are a fictional alien race from the TV series Farscape who are aptly named, as they are the combination creators and gods of the Leviathan biomechanical space-borne species. It is unclear if they are speices that have evolved to god like levels.
Builders Energy Builders Energy Services (), is an income trust that provides oilfield services through labour and specialized equipment to oil and gas producers in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) related to the on-going servicing of producing wells and the completion of new wells.
Builders Labourers Federation The Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) was an Australian trade union organisation which existed from 1911 until 1972, and from 1976 until 1986, when it was permanently deregistered in various Australian States by the federal Labor government and some state governments of the time. This occurred after Victorian State Secretary Norm Gallagher was jailed for corruption and a Royal Commission had occurred into the building industry.
Builders Square Builders Square was founded as a big-box home improvement retailer headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. A subsidiary of Kmart, its format was quite similar to Home Depot and Lowe's with floor space of about 100,000 square feet.
Building 19 Building #19 is a chain of discount stores in New England. The main Building #19 store is located in Weymouth, Massachusetts; other stores have a fraction appended to their name (such as Building 19 1/2, in Burlington or Building #19 3/4, in Norwood).
Building 429/Flight Flight is the second full-length album by Christian rock band Building 429, which was released in 2002. Initial copies of the album were duplicated onto CD-R media with a thermal-printed label applied and distributed in a simple sleeve.
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002 Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002 was passed by the Australian State of Victoria. An Act of the Parliament of Victoria, it was introduced to allow for the rapid determination of progress claims under building contracts or sub-contracts and contracts for the supply of goods or services in the building industry.
Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO The Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO (BCTD) is a constitutionally mandated department of the AFL-CIO. It was founded in 1908 as a way to overcome the jurisdictional conflicts then occurring in the building and construction trade unions.
Building automation Building automation is a programmed, computerized, "intelligent" network of electronic devices that monitor and control the mechanical and lighting systems in a building. The intent is to create an intelligent building and reduce energy and maintenance costs.
Building Adjudication Victoria Inc Building Adjudication Victoria Inc, a not-for-profit organisation which is authorised by the Building Commission, Victoria, Australia, as a Nominating Authority under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002.
Building biology Building biology (or Baubiologie as it was coined in Germany) is a science that investigates the indoor living environment for a variety of irritants. It is a comprehensive science that considers our living environment as an organism, and considers how its functioning can produce a restful or stressful environment.
Building Big (book) Building Big is a book written by David Macaulay, author of the "The Way Things Work" books. The book details the design of about 25 famous structures, broken down into 5 categories: Bridges, Tunnels, Dams, Arches, and Skyscrapers.
Building code A building code is a set of rules that specify the minimum acceptable level of safety for constructed objects such as buildings and nonbuilding structures. The main purpose of the building codes is to protect public health, safety and general welfare as they relate to the construction and occupancy of buildings and structures.
Building design Building design is the design of architectural exterior/interior spaces, engineered elements and shelter design. A building designer, architect, or building engineer may produce designs for all types of buildings in small projects while larger projects will often need other engineers and consultants in structural, mechanical and electrical engineering.

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