The UBC was first published in 1927 by the International Conference of Building Officials, which was based in Whittier, California.
It was intended to promote public safety and provided standardized requirements for safe construction which would not vary from city to city as had previously been the case.
The UBC was replaced in 2000 by the new International Building Code (IBC) published by the International Code Council (ICC).
The ICC was a merger of three predecessor organizations which published three different building codes.
[2] These were: The new ICC was intended to provide consistent standards for safe construction and eliminate differences between the three different predecessor codes.