BOSTON - Housing affordability is at a crisis in Massachusetts, and the building industry is raising concerns that it could get worse due to new building codes designed to fight climate change. The ...

The primary challenge for Vineet Nair and his colleagues is developing the 11th edition of the Massachusetts State Building Code. This requires meticulous review of the 2024 International Code Council ...

The Stretch Code has been updated to allow for the 2021 Passive House Institute US standard (updated from the 2018 standard), in addition to continuing to allow the Passive House International ...

Sometimes there’s a good reason Massachusetts has different rules than the rest of the nation. For example, we pioneered universal health insurance coverage and free public schools. But sometimes ...

Brookline and Watertown last week became the first communities in the state to adopt a new building code discouraging the use of fossil fuels in new buildings, and 22 more cities and towns have ...

As Massachusetts leaders keep searching for solutions to the housing crunch, a top academic institution is pointing to the role the state’s building codes play in restricting multifamily development.