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

Wildfires now threaten communities across California year-round. But they are much less of a danger to homes built since 2008.

The Colorado Energy Office published its Model Low Energy and Carbon Code today, which will become the state’s new minimum ...

Larkspur has passed new building standards to help reduce fossil fuel-related emissions. The City Council voted unanimously on Aug. 20 to adopt two ordinances to increase building electrification ...

HELENA - The state is adopting stricter rules for new home construction, hoping to improve energy efficiency by more than 10 percent. The building industry said the rules go too far and will add ...

Updating building codes might just be one of Washington’s most promising tools in combating climate change. These policies are designed to cut a chunk of the state’s net carbon emissions. Specifically ...

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 ...

Carson City is updating its fire and building codes for the first time in several years to comply with state and federal laws ...