Florida showed the way decades ago by adopting a single statewide standard, saving lives and billions of dollars and showing ...

Santa Monica City Council approves changes to building codes, raising high-rise threshold and allowing single-stairway ...

The goal was to make it easier to build more housing and address a shortage experts say caused housing costs to rise.

Windows at the Jennie Sealy Hospital in Galveston can withstand a 9-pound, 8-foot-long piece of 2x4 lumber flying at 54 miles per hour. Small gravel picked up by last May’s 100-mph derecho shattered ...

Anyone who has built or renovated their own home will know how complex the National Construction Code (NCC) can be. And so, too, does the industry itself. It must keep up with minimum standards for ...

The City of Georgetown will discuss reviewing possible changes to building and fire codes in an attempt to reduce housing ...