Rules for safe building have their roots in ancient times By John D’Annunzio, Columnist, UnionvilleTimes.com Some may ask “why and when did building codes evolve?” Did it all start in the 1920s or later? Well, we need to go back to a time when a Babylonian emperor named Hammurabi enforced his own code called the Hammurabi code. This was around 1800 BC. His thinking was if a builder built...