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

As the United States faces a mounting housing affordability crisis, a debate is intensifying between home builders and code officials over how best to balance costs, safety, and long-term efficiency ...

An international group that develops building codes adopted by a wide swath of U.S. cities and counties abruptly pared back a plan to force new homes to be more climate-friendly. The International ...

In the booming Lowcountry housing market, new homes are being built at an astronomical pace, but some buyers are finding serious code violations right after they move in.

Madcad.com has launched version 2.0 of its Web-based building codes application that provides instant access to more than 4,000 codes and standards from the International Code Council, National Fire ...

LANSING, MI - Michigan is poised to implement building codes requiring new homes make significant jumps in energy efficiency and finally modernizing rules that date back a decade — if they survive a ...

The Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City says that on Monday, Sept. 22, members called on Congress to oppose new ...

ASPEN — The Aspen City Council last week adopted some of the strictest home building codes in the state as the community aligns its ambitious climate action goals with land use regulations. The Aspen ...

Developers said returning to the 2020 energy code would shave $12,000 off the construction cost of an average home.

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