Codes + Standards USGBC Unveils Vision for LEED Positive The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced its LEED Positive vision statement and LEED development roadmap that will “lay the...
Codes + Standards Report Shows Reducing Embodied Carbon Can Save Money and Help Mitigate Climate Change Embodied carbon in buildings accounts for 11% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, according to The Urban Land Institute’s (ULI)...
Codes + Standards Most California Homeowners Are Unprepared for Major Earthquakes In California, homeowners have to accept the fact that their property could be damaged by a major earthquake. An insurance executive says...
Smart + Resilient Cities Flooding in America: A Story of Love, Loss, and Risking It All Imagine investing in a house, improving it, and making it a home only to discover it is worth nothing. In twelve years, flooding wiped out...
Codes + Standards ASHRAE Updates Standards for Ventilation, Air Quality ASHRAE released updated editions of its standards for ventilation system design and acceptable indoor air quality (IAQ). ANSI/ASHRAE...
Codes + Standards As Paradise Rebuilds, Residents Wonder How Much to Spend on Fire Resilience? It’s been one year since the town of Paradise, Calif., was devastated by wildfire. A dozen houses have been rebuilt, a few hundred more have...
Codes + Standards Most Voters Support Licensing Standards for Architects A survey by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) indicates strong support for architecture as a licensed...
Codes + Standards More Cities Are Streamlining Permits and Zoning for Rooftop Solar More than 300 municipalities have received designations from SolSmart, a national program that helps streamline permitting and zoning...
Codes + Standards Major Cities Fight Climate Change With New Building Performance Standards Three large jurisdictions adopted Building Performance Standards (BPS) policies in 2019, and more are considering such action. A BPS policy...
Codes + Standards Local Building Codes Sometimes Fail to Address Disaster Threats In some areas, local building codes ignore real threats, says the author of a new book on designing for disaster resiliency. For example, in...
