Fatal collapse of the stage at the Indiana State Fair in 2011 ignited interest in the safety of public-occupancy outdoor-event structures, which in many cases are not engineered to resist ...

More than a quarter of a century ago, the American Institute of Architects called for a single, national building code. The benefits were obvious &m> major developers, designers and contractors would ...

Who owns the model building code that sets the legal safety minimums adopted by many states and cities? That’s an issue that could be decided in a lawsuit brought by The International Code Council ...

An international organization that develops model codes and standards for new construction is quietly preparing an energy conservation code that opponents argue is a backdoor climate initiative and ...

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). Though both focus on the building industry (specifically, ...

The protection of the public through building construction standards began thousands of years ago when the first building codes were put in place to provide minimum safety standards. Understanding the ...