In California, developers are building the country’s first wildfire resilient neighborhoods

Fire scientists optimized the safest design for high-risk fire zones. Now, some California developments are starting to put ...

Behind the boom: How Ohio’s building code office keeps rapid growth safe

As construction booms in central Ohio, building code officials work behind the scenes to review plans and inspect projects ...
Daily Local

Flook new head of West Chester Building, Housing, Codes Enforcement Dept.

Since his hiring in late July, Flook who is charged with code enforcement, building codes, zoning and planning, land ...
The Columbian

Vancouver City Council extends tax exemption for multifamily properties that offer affordable units

The Vancouver City Council on Monday narrowly approved the city’s first extension of a multifamily tax exemption.
The Boston Globe

A thick mortar of building codes, disability access, and inequity

Re “Building accessibility codes shouldn’t apply differently in Newton and Pittsfield”: I am writing in response to your Dec. 14 editorial to clarify that the Americans with Disabilities Act and ...
Times Colonist

BC Hydro takes ranchers to court, says they blocked 'nation-building' hydro line work

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's Crown utility is taking a family of ranchers in Vanderhoof, B.C., to court for allegedly blocking access to properties that BC Hydro needs to enter as it prepares for ...
Vancouver

BC Hydro sues ranching family for blocking access to $6B 'nation-building' power line

The first three of two hundred 500kV towers are installed in the right-of-way leaving the Site C substation, April 2020. The North Coast Transmission Line is being built to send power from the Site C ...