Residential buildings under 24 metres in height — a category that includes a large number multi-storey homes, such as the ill ...

Govt on Thursday replaced National Building Code (NBC) with National Building Construction Standards (NBCS) by withdrawing ...

The Laramie City Council rejected a request to remove nearly 80 acres from city limits tied to a previously approved ...

UpCodes has introduced a new platform that connects building codes directly with construction specifications, aiming to streamline compliance workflows. As regulations tighten and project timelines ...

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"Living Tiny Legally" is a 3-part educational docu-series exploring the benefits of tiny housing in communities, the legal challenges faced, and the ways these obstacles are being addressed in various ...

A judge ruled the 2024 standards did not violate federal energy efficiency standards for appliances. A U.S. district court this week upheld Maryland’s building codes requiring certain commercial and ...

Fire officials and pro-density urbanists are often at loggerheads. This is especially evident in notoriously car-centric Los Angeles, where a firefighters’ union spent six figures opposing active ...

Pennsylvania has moved into a new regulatory era with the statewide adoption of the 2021 International Codes (I‑Codes), which became effective on January 1, 2026, as part of the latest Uniform ...

Firefighters respond to a five-alarm fire in a row of apartment buildings in Queens, N.Y., on Jan. 6. (Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily News/TNS) A New Year’s celebration in the Swiss Alps turned ...

Bend may be the next city in Oregon to require home builders to use fire-resistant materials in new construction. The Bend City Council mostly supported that prospect in a work session last week, and ...