Standards & Codes

What changed in Standards & Codes recently

1. New · Release 1.85 · 29 October 2026

   Submittal review on Standards & Codes: paste a material submittal and it is checked against the Egyptian codes for that material, the contract’s clauses and the BOQ — each check cited, the verdict a draft for the engineer (code A, B or C), and an approval with a failed check sent back.

2. New · Release 1.73 · 27 October 2026

   The 96 HBRC code documents are held on the platform — 1,389 pages, every page read in Arabic and English — so Standards & Codes and Ask ConstructINS search the codes’ own text, not only the catalog.

3. New · Release 1.71 · 27 October 2026

   Standards & Codes answers questions: the question is read by Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, the code library is searched by meaning in English and Arabic, and the answer names the code, part, chapter and edition that govern, citing the documents — each opening the scan itself.

4. New · Release 1.62 · 24 October 2026

   Egyptian code library (Standards & Codes): 96 HBRC code documents from the company’s Drive, grouped under 15 codes — concrete structures (ECP 203, including the full 2018 update), loads (ECP 201), soil mechanics and foundations (ECP 202, all ten parts and the 2006 guidance manual), steel structures, building (masonry) works, electrical installations (ECP 302) and its guidance manual, elevators (ECP 303), sanitary installations (ECP 301), water and sewerage pipelines, treated wastewater reuse (ECP 501), urban and rural roads, road coordination, accessibility (ECP 601) and hospital design standards.

5. New · Release 1.26 · 20 September 2026

   Standards & Codes now covers worker/site safety — Labor Law 12/2003 (OH&S), Ministerial Decree 211/2003, construction site-safety practice, ISO 45001 and OSHA references — and environmental compliance: Environment Law 4/1994 (amended by 9/2009), the EIA/EEAA regime, and construction dust, noise and waste controls. The Ask knowledge base picks these up automatically.

6. New · Release 1.15 · 20 September 2026

   Standards & Codes now has a search box — filter the whole catalog by code, title, scope or authority (for example, “concrete”, “fire”, “HBRC”), with a live match count.