Building codes are an often-overlooked tool in fighting climate change. But last week, a little-known nonprofit group that sets building codes used across most of the U.S. decided to make them a lot ...

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

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 ...

The City of Georgetown will discuss reviewing possible changes to building and fire codes in an attempt to reduce housing ...

In the booming Lowcountry housing market, new homes are being built at an astronomical pace, but some buyers are finding serious code violations right after they move in.

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AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Lawmakers in Augusta are considering the requirements needed to make tiny homes building code friendly, but some say that would require a lot of changes to the way ...

For the past 25 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has helped develop building codes, the construction ...

ASPEN — The Aspen City Council last week adopted some of the strictest home building codes in the state as the community aligns its ambitious climate action goals with land use regulations. The Aspen ...

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

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