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 ...

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 ...

Stronger building codes save lives. That is why, with the start of the 2013 hurricane season, we reintroduced the Safe Building Code Incentive Act to encourage more states to follow the lead of the ...

More than two years after the National Institute of Standards and Technology released its 30 recommendations for improving the safety of tall buildings based on its post-9/11 investigation of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado is rolling out model building codes that will make new construction ready for solar panels and electric vehicles and appliances, all intended to ...

The U.S. solar industry is warning that dozens of gigawatts of clean energy projects could be canceled if the agency’s proposal for building codes is adopted. The Federal Emergency Management Agency ...