The goal was to make it easier to build more housing and address a shortage experts say caused housing costs to rise.

Wisconsin will begin enforcing new building codes for commercial projects starting Nov. 1, the first major update to state ...

Wildfires now threaten communities across California year-round. But they are much less of a danger to homes built since 2008 ...

Florida showed the way decades ago by adopting a single statewide standard, saving lives and billions of dollars and showing ...

ENCINITAS — The Encinitas City Council is working to preserve local control of building regulations by moving forward with a ...

The city has used its codes to get homebuilders and remodelers to add solar panels, graywater recycling systems and electric ...

This year, New York became the first state to mandate zero emission construction in new buildings through the enacted state budget for 2024. Starting in 2025, the state building code will prohibit the ...

Santa Monica City Council approves changes to building codes, raising high-rise threshold and allowing single-stairway ...

A lawsuit filed earlier this week by the Building Industry Association of Washington and 22 other plaintiffs seeks to overturn state building code requirements ...

Homebuilders said returning to the 2020 energy code would shave $12,000 off the construction cost of an average home.

After Category 5 Hurricane Michael slammed into Mexico Beach, Fla., in 2018, there was a dramatic contrast in destruction: homes built at or beyond state building codes still stood, whereas many of ...

Nevada is experiencing an unprecedented building boom. With such rapid growth, ensuring all these buildings are constructed to the highest safety and compliance standards is a top priority.