Larkspur has passed new building standards to help reduce fossil fuel-related emissions. The City Council voted unanimously on Aug. 20 to adopt two ordinances to increase building electrification ...
One of the few states in the union that has resisted dictating building codes, instead leaving adoption and enforcement decisions to localities, is seeing a renewed push to change course. In early ...
Currently, state building code requires any apartment building three stories or taller to have at least two exits, or ...
The Encinitas City Council has unanimously agreed to renew the city’s special “reach” codes that help it meet its climate action plan’s goals of lowering greenhouse gas emissions and reducing energy ...
HOUSTON — In comments on a viral video of a framed home collapsing in Willis during the May derecho, there are several claims about Texas' building codes. A month before the video of the collapse was ...
With the devastating Los Angeles blazes still fresh in memory, cities across the Bay Area region are developing plans to lower the climate-heating emissions that are fanning the flames. But a ...
MADISON, Wis. — Updates to state standards for commercial building construction will be enforced in November after being pushed back a month. The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional ...
Sausalito will require builders to use low-carbon concrete. The policy, part of a periodic energy and building code update to ...
The State Fire Prevention and Building Code Council will meet March 31 at 10 a.m. via videoconference. The meeting will be held at three locations in Albany, New York City and Buffalo, with remote ...