The International Code Council's Building Safety Month Advances Public Safety and Community Resilience

The International Code Council's (ICC) annual Building Safety Month begins this week and continues through May 31. For 46 ...
CONTRACTOR

From 3D Printing to Prefab Homes: Building Codes as a Catalyst for Affordable Housing

ICC’s Ryan Colker explains how thoughtful code development and evaluation processes are paving the way for safe, scalable adoption of next-generation building technologies. ICC's Ryan Colker speaks at ...
Detroit News

The Inside Outside Guys: Building codes help keep us safe

Building codes have existed for thousands of years. In the Code of Hammurabi, written between 1755 B.C. and 1750 B.C., item 229 states that “if a builder builds a house for someone and does not ...

Worcester City Manager reverses on green building code, says policy will continue

Worcester residents oppose a proposed 20-month pause on a code reducing emissions from new buildings, citing health and ...
Houston Chronicle

Texas is still vulnerable to storms. We need to invest in resiliency, not recovery.

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 ...
Times of San Diego

Lawmakers consider pausing building code updates to spur housing construction

This article was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As lawmakers scramble to turbocharge post-fire recovery efforts in Los Angeles and to tackle a housing shortage ...
LAist

Building codes and FEMA

For the past 25 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has helped develop building codes, the construction standards that help houses survive hurricanes, wildfires and earthquakes. Now, ...