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I am doing some research for building a hospital project in the Las Condes region of Santiago Chile. I have not been able to find any information regarding building codes and regulations used in that region. I am particularly looking for any information on building height restrictions, construction type, seismic and fire codes etc.
While doing online research I have come across some references to UBC 1997..is this the code followed in Chile?
I am sure there are Chilean codes- but I haven't been able to find any information on that.
Please help.

codes? You need an ENIGMA machine first.

Thanks for all the input.

Its just as I suspected that the national/ local codes will be in spanish. I will try and get in touch with the municipality in Las Condes. I know very little spanish but might be able to get help.

As an aside, maybe there's a market to sell such translations "off the shelf" on a website? Just wanted to put it out there for the Admin (and other interested parties?) that my firm in the US already has the infrastructure to execute online content sales via major credit cards: merchant account, payment gateway (Authorize.net), custom php code to process one-off and subscription content sales... We're processing thousands of dollars of transactions each month with our own paid content (covering major defense contracts worldwide, nothing to do with Chile).

The idea would be to sell PDFs behind a secure paid wall, at first probably once a single buyer funded (most of) the initial translation cost for each document. I'd be open to a split revenue deal where we provide the ecommerce platform while someone else provides the paid content (provided said content is legitimate and monetizable, which in this case I have a hunch it is). This might help lowering unit price since hopefully there would be more than one buyer funding translation. The idea is to mitigate risk (vs. funding translation upfront without an order to fund it) and allow revenue growth potential (more volume at a lower price) while supporting the "hey why don't you move to or invest in Chile" cause.

If there's such a platform, maybe some translators will want to take the leap and translate some documents on a shared revenue basis too (3-way split between Allchile for distribution, the translator for their service, my company for enabling online sales).

Anyway, this is just an idea I wanted to throw out there in case there's interest in providing a "doing business and operating in Chile" list of translated documents as an adjunct to the allchile.net list of sites. Maybe the Admin already knows how to handle online sales without our help (more power to you then!), or maybe there's no critical mass to support it (though that seems hard to figure out upfront in a chicken-and-egg conundrum). Happy to shut up about it or discuss it further, it would be just an ancillary experiment for me, based for the most part on re-using investments we already have done. On my end I like to leverage our assets to open new opportunities at little extra cost. It makes it relatively painless if the opportunity doesn't pan out.

Thanks. If there's anyone able to have a sense of pent-up demand volume for that sort of content, I'd bet it's you Charles.