New building codes meant to make homes more energy efficient take effect Thursday in North Carolina, but builders are having a tough time following the new guidelines since they haven't been printed ...

Pressing pause on adding yet more building standards to the already onerous, and highly expensive, codes already on the books in California isn’t really the optimum way to create more desperately ...

This change is extremely helpful. Instead of having to use a copy of the 2012 IRC and then look through the Minnesota Amendments to figure out what's what, there is now a single book available that ...

GALENA, Kan. - The Galena City Council on Tuesday night voted to buy a set of international building code books to replace the city's outdated volumes. The cost of the set is $614. "We're just about ...

WATAGUA COUNTY, N.C.,None — To the relief of builders and building inspectors, the N.C. Department of Insurance posted the 2012 N.C. Residential Code online Tuesday. Session Law 2011-269, signed by ...

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 ...