Oklahoma's building code committee is considering changes to housing regulations, including reducing stairway requirements, ...

Building codes usually come up in the context of safety – a properly constructed building can help prevent injury or death from fires, earthquakes, and extreme weather. But they’re also essential for ...

Strict compliance with structural building standards is a necessary layer of protection against earthquake hazards, according ...

For more than seven years, UpCodes has been making the complicated world of building codes easier to understand for people like industry professionals and homeowners. Its platform includes a ...

A proposed ordinance would let developers construct buildings of up to five stories with a single stairwell. But fire and buildings department leaders aren't on board.

A Supreme Court decision in April strengthened the hand of organizations striving to broaden access to building codes. In a 5–4 ruling, the court found for the defendant in Georgia v.

LAWMAKERS are calling for urgent Senate action on the long-delayed overhaul of the decades-old National Building Code (NBC), following the deadly collapse of a building under construction in Angeles ...

Mobile home, Manufactured Building, Manufactured Home, Premanufactured Home, Single-Wide, Double-Wide, Trailer; these are all words we tend to use to describe the semi-permanent, transportable, ...

IN the aftermath of last Sunday’s tragic building collapse in Angeles City, Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon issued an order to immediately conduct a review of the Philippines’ almost 50-year-old ...