Developed through an independent consensus committee representing a broad range of stakeholders, the 2025 NGBS reflects ...

Despite NDMA warnings and court rulings, most Indian schools still lack fire safety NOCs, drills, and escape planning—making ...

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

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A judge ruled the 2024 standards did not violate federal energy efficiency standards for appliances. A U.S. district court this week upheld Maryland’s building codes requiring certain commercial and ...

Fire officials and pro-density urbanists are often at loggerheads. This is especially evident in notoriously car-centric Los Angeles, where a firefighters’ union spent six figures opposing active ...

Pennsylvania has moved into a new regulatory era with the statewide adoption of the 2021 International Codes (I‑Codes), which became effective on January 1, 2026, as part of the latest Uniform ...

Firefighters respond to a five-alarm fire in a row of apartment buildings in Queens, N.Y., on Jan. 6. (Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily News/TNS) A New Year’s celebration in the Swiss Alps turned ...

Bend may be the next city in Oregon to require home builders to use fire-resistant materials in new construction. The Bend City Council mostly supported that prospect in a work session last week, and ...

TUPELO — Ahead of updating the city’s guiding documents and plans, Tupelo officials have agreed to revise its fire prevention and protection rules alongside its building regulations. The Tupelo City ...

Lawmakers are poised to repeal a 2024 law that would have changed state building code to allow only one stairway as an exit in some residential buildings, following opposition from Connecticut fire ...

Following recent columns about ways to create more living space (additions, basement remodels etc.), I wanted to explore a topic that’s receiving a lot of attention lately: ADUs, or accessory dwelling ...