The fundamental purpose of this subchapter is to promote the public health, safety, morals and general welfare by adopting regulations governing the manner in which and the types of materials of which dwellings, buildings and structures shall hereafter be erected or altered, which regulations are intended to improve the safety, protection and sanitation of such buildings and structures. These requirements are to be interpreted as essentially minimum and nothing contained in this subchapter shall prohibit the use of any additional measures designed to improve the construction of any building or structure.
(1990 Code, § 8.2)