Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho and Wyoming have no statewide wildfire building codes. Colorado adopted a code last year, with ...

What’s missing is operational fluency. It’s the ability to find, interpret and act on this knowledge quickly and consistently ...

Communities with mature project plans, early benefit-cost analyses and proven delivery capacity will be best positioned to ...

For the past 25 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has helped develop building codes, the construction standards that help houses survive hurricanes, wildfires and earthquakes. Now, ...

States and cities are revising building codes to allow single-stair multifamily buildings, aiming to increase affordable housing while maintaining safety standards. Minnesota’s recent study may guide ...

MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin Assembly bill to delay enforcement of recently adopted commercial building codes has been vetoed by Gov. Tony Evers. Assembly Bill 450, which would have delayed the ...

Pressing pause on adding yet more building standards to the already onerous, and highly expensive, codes already on the books in California isn’t really the optimum way to create more desperately ...

Building codes have existed for thousands of years. In the Code of Hammurabi, written between 1755 B.C. and 1750 B.C., item 229 states that “if a builder builds a house for someone and does not ...

Finishing a basement feels like one of the smarter home investments you can make. You're turning unused square footage into a ...

Breckenridge sustainability and building staff members have formally started stakeholder outreach as they embark on a monthslong process to nail down building codes before a mandated rollout set for ...

The Aurora City Council is set to vote Tuesday on a proposal to update the city’s building codes, which are several years out of date. Currently, Aurora’s building codes are based on the 2015 ...