Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A construction worker balances atop a roof. States and cities are loosening building code requirements in an effort to lower ...

Despite losing last summer in U.S. District Court in Eastern Washington, gas and homebuilding plaintiffs last month filed a new lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Western Washington seeking again to ...

A construction worker balances atop a roof. States and cities are loosening building code requirements in an effort to lower construction costs and boost affordable housing. States and cities are ...

More than a dozen California cities and counties have been trying for months to get climate-forward building standards enacted. But they've been caught in regulatory purgatory thanks to legislation ...

University of Alabama researchers reviewed 2.7 million home sales in 26 states from 2011 to 2022 and found no sustained pattern of higher prices after residential code adoption. The article argues ...

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has signed into law a bill that lays the groundwork to expand the state’s building code adoption cycle to every six years rather than the current three years. Housing ...

Mount Vernon’s long-maligned Department of Buildings could face a takeover by New York state in August if it fails to remedy serious deficiencies in the city’s enforcement of the state Fire Prevention ...