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The reorganized document is organized from an engineer’s perspective. The requirements flow more...
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The Bullitt Center in Seattle, which some say is the world's most efficient office building is no...
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The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Labour announced that they will start using drones to help...
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The California Energy Commission launched the upgrade process to Title 24, the state energy code,...
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The Urban Land Institute held brainstorming sessions over the last several months involving more...
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Los Angeles reversed course last month on a regulation that had barred skyscrapers from having sl...
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The report contains 12 case studies of cities around the world that have applied advanced flood m...
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Earlier this year, New York City's Department of Buildings began auditing thousands of architectu...
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A key change is a requirement that buildings over 75 feet tall have sprinkler systems throughout...
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Less than a year after opening its ultra-green, hydropowered data center facility in Luleå, Swede...
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The U.S. Geological Service recently released an update of U.S. National Seismic Hazard Maps that...
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An analysis of tidal levels and flood data by the news organization Reuters concludes that floodi...
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After being criticized for the cost and size of her stadium design for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo...
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New research findings indicate that for the first time more than half of projects above $10 milli...
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The Studio is the first to be launched as part of the AIA Foundation’s National Resilience Progra...
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Architect Butch Grimes, who examined the wreckage after a half-mile tornado struck Tuscaloosa, Al...
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The industry associations, with more than 700,000 members generating almost $1 trillion in GDP, h...
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The City of Vancouver’s ban on doorknobs in all new buildings, which went into effect last month,...
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California’s recent revisions to Title 24 contain ambitious performance goals: all residential bu...
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently ruled that distinct portions of a mixed-used bu...
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The move will affect 24 districts that have schools inside Oklahoma City limits.
The city has been operating a downtown dirt parking lot in violation of its own code and the fede...
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The issue was raised in the wake of a tragic fire at a seniors' residence in L'Isle-Verte.
Two supervisors charged that a lack of adequate code enforcement has led to blight from dilapidat...
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Sixteen years ago, the Los Angeles City Council decided against requiring retrofits of existing b...
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Recent advancements in structural design, combined with the loosening of density and zoning requi...
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Proposed legislation to further regulate the building of micro apartments has triggered appeals f...
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Some 1,500 concrete structures built in Los Angeles before 1980 could be vulnerable to earthquake...
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Our experts say no, but it could save lives. In this report, they offer recommendations on securi...
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