Puerto Rico Building Code Question

[RBS01]

Do you know of latest Puerto Rico code or amendment/s recently?
My old documents (PR '98) shows UBC 97, Zone 3 for seismic and ASCE-7-95 for wind application. Anyone please share before I contact the bldg. official. Thanks.

 

[MiketheEngineer]

Call them anyway - things might have changed in the past month or two??

 

[Elindio1]

The Code is the UBC 1997 with the 1999 ARPE ammendments. Seismic Zone 3. Verify if the structure is FM Gloobal insured use their Data sheet 1-28 for wind loads. There have been talks about using the IBC 2006 , but nothing yet has been decided..

 

[UcfSE]

I have used IBC 2006 for a PR project. It was for the government, which may have influenced that.