The Multiplanetary Building Code
The official Multiplanetary Building Code (MBC) will offer a comprehensive and comprehensible set of model standards necessary to support humanity's expansion off-world.
The mission
To openly adopt, adapt, unify, and share relevant standards from across the world in order to assist all space-facing entities in more affordably and effectively supporting the expansion of humanity beyond Earth, and in order to better serve the needs of the people who will live and work off-world.
The vision
To define the common ground from which we launch towards the stars.
How to help
Please share your perspectives and insights by doing any or all of the following:
- create an issue to request or suggest changes, or to note errors
- open a pull request if you would like to submit a new file or initiate changes to an existing file
- sharing this repo with friends and experts who would be interested
- contacting me directly at patrick@alumni.ucla.edu
Please see the Contributor Guide for more details.
Want to help?
If you're involved with any of the following organizations and writing their standards publications, then your input is especially valuable to guiding MBC in the right direction.
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
- AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee (AIAA SATC)
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- ASTM International
- U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
- European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
- European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC)
- European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
- U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- International Code Council (ICC)
- International Maritime Organization (IMO)
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- Moon Village Association (MVA)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
- United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
Please see the wiki page for more details.
Current status
As of September 2019: feel free to contact me at patrick@alumni.ucla.edu if you're interested in helping. MBC is not currently sponsored or endorsed by any of the listed organizations. No MBC author receives compensation for referencing any of the listed organizations and are not affiliated unless noted otherwise.
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Copyright 2019 Patrick A. Donovan, P.E. (CA)