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 ...

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 ...

The majority of construction requires a Department of Buildings permit. Typically, any construction project that alters major building systems, such as electrical, plumbing, HVAC, or structural, ...

UpCodes, a startup that develops building-code compliance tools, announced today it has raised $3.36 million in pre-Series A funding. This brings its total raised so far to $4.15 million. The new ...

Repeat offenders who break the county's rules around illegal signs, building permits or trash could be forced to pay as much as $500 a day for their violations due to an ordinance update.

LP Building Solutions has launched LP BurnGuard Fire-Retardant-Treated Oriented Strand Board, the first commercialized ...

Red Oak officials have taken the first step towards updating the city's building permit and fee structure. By a 3-2 vote at its regular meeting Monday evening, the Red Oak City Council approved the ...

MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KJCT) — Mesa County commissioners have passed a wildfire resiliency code that will affect the ...

ADVOCACY group CitizenWatch Philippines on Wednesday urged the Senate to amend the National Building Code, arguing that broadband connectivity should be a mandatory standard in all new construction.

IF Chicago can do it, any city can. That is what students of the construction industry are thinking about Chicago’s achievement, after a fiveyear civic struggle, in enacting a modern building code.