Code for builders

Babylon’s Building Code (1758 BC)

Also Known as Code for builders by Hammurabi

This code was set by Hammurabi, king of Babylon. He made a strict law for the builders. It aimed at the builders of his time wherein, they were forced to follow the code by law. He ordered them,

“If a builder has built a house for a man and has not made his work sound, and the house which he has built was fallen down and so caused the death of the householder, that builder shall be put to death. If it causes the death of the house holder’s son, they shall put that builder’s son to death. If it causes the death of the house holder’s slave, he shall give slave to the householder.

If it destroys property, he shall replace anything it has destroyed; and because he has not made the house sound which he has built and it has fallen down, he shall rebuild the house which has fallen down from his own property. If a builder has built a house for a man and does not make his work perfect and the wall bulges, that builder shall put that wall into sound condition at his own cost”.

Picture of King Hammurabi