For example, building codes regarding types of roofs in northern states are more concerned with the potential weight of snowfall than with hurricane-strength winds. A: A building permit is ...

A change is in progress statewide that will lower operating costs and save energy for new buildings in our area. Building ...

Some officials, particularly in smaller jurisdictions, say they lack the funding or personnel to staff a building code enforcement office. Yet there are examples of communities in Texas using ...

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 ...

For example, Wooten said ... The North Carolina Home Builders Association exerts huge influence on both the Building Code Council and the Republican-controlled state legislature, which has ...

Wooten points to recent House Bill 488 as an example. It says local governments ... And, she points to Senate Bill 166, which restructures the Building Code Council, removing architects from ...

As Wisconsin confronts a shortfall of more than 227,000 housing units by 2030, state and local officials, developers, and housing advocates gathered at the new Arabella Apartments in Racine on Monday, ...