A Thurston County judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to force the state Building Code Council to move faster in ...

The Building and Construction Authority will publish an updated building code, with requirements for nursing rooms, by the second quarter of this year. It lays out how many lactation rooms a building ...

Canada’s next building code will incorporate climate resilience into housing and infrastructure design for the first time.

B.C. fire chiefs are fighting a new provincial rule that halves the number of fire escapes required in some smaller ...

Oregon updates building codes to facilitate the construction of multi-family units without mandatory sprinklers.

The number of California acres mapped into higher "fire hazard severity zones" is doubling. Stricter fire safety building ...

Builders in Maple Ridge can use a new permitting process designed to speed approvals.

Residents can give feedback on proposed building code changes, known as the Bastrop Building Block Code, or B3.