For more than a century, codes have made homes safer, more durable, and less costly to maintain. A debate unfolding in Washington will determine whether that record will be strengthened or undone in ...

For the past 25 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has helped develop building codes, the construction standards that help houses survive hurricanes, wildfires and earthquakes. Now, ...

An international group that develops building codes adopted by a wide swath of U.S. cities and counties abruptly pared back a plan to force new homes to be more climate-friendly. The International ...

Onerous building codes are responsible for about one-third of costs of building multifamily housing, according to the author ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Innovative Housing Showcase was held September 6-10 on the National Mall. The annual event raises awareness of innovative and ...

An international organization that develops model codes and standards for new construction is quietly preparing an energy conservation code that opponents argue is a backdoor climate initiative and ...

Madcad.com has launched version 2.0 of its Web-based building codes application that provides instant access to more than 4,000 codes and standards from the International Code Council, National Fire ...

Under a new Oregon residential energy code, new houses built in the state must be equipped with heat pumps that can both heat and cool rather than traditional units that can only provide air ...

In Michigan, homes and buildings are constructed under rules developed when Barack Obama was president, nearly a decade ago. The state has blown past a deadline under the law to bring them up to date, ...

LANSING, MI - Michigan is poised to implement building codes requiring new homes make significant jumps in energy efficiency and finally modernizing rules that date back a decade — if they survive a ...

To help homes survive more intense disasters, FEMA has been developing recommendations for stronger building codes. The Trump Administration has... For the past 25 years, the Federal Emergency ...