Codes
President Barack Obama recently signed an executive order related to climate change and disaster-...
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The proposed new code will increase the mandatory installation of occupancy sensors and daylighti...
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Green-building and accessibility are the major themes of the 2013 updates to California’s constru...
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In California, there are still hundreds of concrete buildings that need reinforcement to bring th...
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With countries not tackling climate change aggressively, cities are in the best position to drive...
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Sixty-five up-and-coming AEC stars presented their big ideas for solving pressing social, economi...
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Many large construction projects in Arizona are going green by paying attention to energy efficie...
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The newly revised ConsensusDocs standard subcontract (ConsensusDocs 752 for federal work) will ma...
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San Francisco is poised to drop a requirement that skyscrapers have refill stations so firefighte...
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The healthcare industry has experienced great attention from The Joint Commission concerning fire...
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Since 2000, at least three individuals have died as a result of falling from the upper decks of s...
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Outdated building codes and lack of a master plan slowed the initial rebuilding stage after a dev...
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New York-based Millennium Partners have agreed to dig a trench on a Hollywood, Calif., property t...
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While Boston officials consider whether to enact new building codes to resist flooding stemming f...
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Officials in the Northwest’s large metropolitan areas have sent survey takers out at night throug...
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Building codes have effectively outlawed the bottom end of the private housing market, driving up...
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The City of Detroit’s financial problems may make it more likely to adopt blue infrastructure sta...
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An amendment to a Michigan appropriations budget authorizes an increase in state debt to pay for...
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Skanska USA resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the Chamber’s decision to support the...
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A plan to build pre-fab apartment buildings at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, N.Y., has been challen...
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The U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) passed a slate of sustainability resolutions that renew its...
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Underestimating thermal bridging can greatly undermine a building’s performance contributing to h...
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More than 90% of New York City schools have at least one outstanding building code violation. Loo...
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Success in constructing net-zero homes in the Northwest has sparked debate over how far green cod...
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A proposed bill before the Las Vegas City Council would allow any building built before 2009 unde...
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Developers and home builders are asking the Ontario government to change the building code to all...
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Are federal design-build contract laws unfair to small firms? AIA thinks so, citing an interestin...
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North Carolina lawmakers have introduced state legislation that would restrict the use of nationa...
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