The International Code Council's (ICC) annual Building Safety Month begins this week and continues through May 31. For 46 ...

Planning a major renovation or just making small improvements around the house? Understanding building codes is crucial.

What we’re talking about today here is lowering the safety standard that’s in that approved code from where it started to ...

The controversial New York developer trying to build unconventional, high-tech apartment buildings around Connecticut has hit ...

The federal agencies argue that energy-efficiency building codes have added at least $20K in costs to home construction.

Part of the problem is the ballooning scope of the National Construction Code, which has been broadened in recent years to ...

A Canadian social enterprise hopes to help solve the urgent need for retrofits and shortage of skilled workers ...

The Bend City Council has adopted Section R327 of the Oregon Residential Specialty Code, establishing home‑hardening ...

As Ontario moves to speed up housing construction by cutting red tape, Lung Health Foundation (LHF) is urging the province not to remove a simple, proven safeguard already built into the system: radon ...

Residents are displaced after an early morning apartment fire near 107th and W. Fond du Lac on Milwaukee's northwest side.