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The Canadian Province of British Columbia is updating its building code to expand the use of mass timber in building construction. The code will allow for encapsulated mass-timber construction (EMTC) buildings as tall as 18 stories for residential and office buildings, an increase from the previous 12-story limit.
The International Code Council stripped out provisions from the 2024 update to the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) that would have included beefed up circuitry for hooking up electric appliances and car chargers.
A new technical brief from SPRI, the trade association representing the manufacturers of single-ply roofing systems and related component materials, addresses construction-generated moisture and its impact on commercial roofing systems.
Gensler’s Climate Action & Sustainability Services Leaders Anthony Brower, Juliette Morgan, and Kirsten Ritchie discuss trends shaping the future of environmental, social, and governance (ESG).
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is paying closer attention to intrusion of potentially harmful vapors into commercial and residential buildings.
Rural areas say they can’t afford to enforce state-adopted building code.
Construction industry officials said the rule would hamper developers, cost jobs.
Benchmarks impacts of seven PVC pipe products across their life cycles.
The standard will aid engineers in configuring cooling systems in office buildings.
Nepal’s code author says destruction was ‘inevitable.’
New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Boston among cities grappling with height regulations.
Anti-prevailing wage bills that apply to state-funded construction projects have been passed in West Virginia and Nevada. Similar laws could be passed in Indiana and Illinois.
The agency says the rule will protect about 800 workers a year from serious injury.
The legislation would have made it harder for condo owners to sue builders.
