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Since the establishment of the first Hsinchu Science Park on December 15, 1980., the government of Republic of China has put into several thousand million NT dollars on the software and infrastructure of the Science Park. Up to date, besides the successfully established Science Parks in Hsinchu, Central Taiwan and South Taiwan, our government is also developing another Science Park in Yilan area. Today, in the high technology development items, Taiwan has already owned the biggest 12 inch FAB manufacturing clusters in the world. The global market share of IC design is only next to United States. Taiwan is also the number one in industry of wafer OEM, packaging and testing. More than that, Taiwan is also the number one biggest production country of the flat displays of TFT-LCD industry in the world, by which our country has generated quite a big amount of foreign income every year. The current Silicone Leading Plan will definitely increase our competitiveness in high-tech industry development in future.
The purpose of the Building Code is to maintain the public safety, public traffic, public hygiene of buildings, and also to promote the urban landscape atmosphere. Its subsidiary code, The Building Technical Code, was established to guideline the architectural planning, design, construction, building structural and mechanical systems, and equipment. Although it has been modified several times after the announcement by the Ministry of Interior on February 26, 1945., the content still remains on the specification of the general and industrial buildings. To the issue of whether the specification suitable for new building type, new function and mega-structures like high-tech factories is still questionable.
Based on the importance of high-tech industry development, the characteristic of planning and disaster and the status of current Building Technical Code development, also, by utilizing the major building code items like compartmentalization, fire rated definition, travel distance and emergency access, with practical illustrations and explanation, this study tries to evaluate the current Building Code suitability. In addition, the study is going to express the conceptual correspondence towards the captioned four major building items.
In the conclusion, our study provides references to related research and governmental agency on code revision in suggested items like:
1. establish the specific chapter for high-tech industry;
2. set up the basic law for performance codes;
3. set up the insurance related ordinance mechanism;
4. propose disaster prevention and organization adaptation plan during review period.
Only sound and reasonable ordinances can guarantee the smooth setup process and competitive ability of the high-tech industry. It also provides guarantee and protection of the basic safety on human life and property.
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