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The New York City Council is considering a proposed law with the goal of preventing building collapses. The Billingsley Structural Integrity Act is a response to the collapse of 1915 Billingsley Terrace in the Bronx last December.
Looking ahead to 2024 and beyond, two pivotal changes in federal construction labor dynamics are likely to exacerbate increasing construction labor costs, according to Gordian's Samuel Giffin.
The Biden Administration is considering how to spur more affordable housing construction with strategies to influence reform of local housing regulations.
Chicago voters in March rejected a proposed “mansion tax” that would have funded efforts to reduce homelessness in the city.
The comment period is open until May 29.
The name change reflects the organization’s expanded certification and credentialing services.
Seattle’s city planner recently said that the council’s new rules have made small apartments more expensive to build and charged the board with “overreaching” and not giving micro-housing “a fair shake.”
BEDES is a dictionary that facilitates consistent exchange of building characteristics and energy use data between tools and databases in the building energy efficiency sector.
Revitalization pushes Detroit and New Orleans up the rankings
This move means that projects achieving the energy and water requirements in Living Building Challenge will be considered as technically equivalent to LEED.
California is the first state to adopt standards that are more efficient than those set by EPA's WaterSense program.
Virginia has edged out Florida as the state with the most stringent hurricane building codes, according to the Institute for Business and Home Safety’s “2015 Rating the States” report.
The court said the state’s affordable housing agency had failed to do its job, and effectively transferred the agency's regulatory authority to lower courts.
The standard includes avoiding large chunks of transparent or reflective glass and adding fritting.
