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

Miami-Dade County has some of the strongest building codes in the world, designed to withstand the punishing 150 mph winds of Category 5 storms like Hurricane Andrew, which hit 30 years ago and ...

Florida is about to make virtual inspections legal statewide. Starting July 1, The Florida Building Codes Act authorizes any government entity with the authority to enforce the building code to ...

NPR's A Martínez talks to Kathy Baughman McLeod, director of the Arsht-Rockefeller Resilience Center, on whether Florida's building codes can stand up to increasingly severe hurricanes. Hurricane Ian ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Thirty years ago, a Category 5 hurricane named Andrew slammed into southeast Florida. For many long-time Floridians, that’s how they mark time: “before Andrew” and “after Andrew.” ...

Nearly half of the states along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts received a poor rating from an insurance industry group that evaluated building codes and enforcement in hurricane-prone areas. Texas, ...

Coral Springs' Chief Building Official, Alex Hernandez, joins the Florida League of Cities' policy committee to influence ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) - With the deadly collapse Thursday of a 12-story high-rise condo building in Surfside, a Miami-Dade County, in which 55 of the 136 units crumbled, some residents of the southland ...

Donna LaMountain, 51, embraces her friend, Tammey Lynch, 55, after looking at damage on Pine Island Road on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in Matlacha, Fla. Hurricane Ian made landfall on the coast of ...