Resilient Construction House Lift: Elevating Foundations as a Response to Flooding One response to chronic flooding is to mandate that building foundations be elevated. Homeowners and builders weigh the costs
Resilient Construction Roadblocks to Resilient Construction After a Natural Disaster Rebuilding after a natural disaster, ultimately, is a function of insurance and the cost of materials and labor, all of which are getting harder and pricier to obtain in disaster-prone market
Smart + Resilient Cities Toyota Is Making a Smart City in Japan—But Cars Aren’t the Focus If you heard a car company intended to design a smart city, you would think it would include countless highways with automobiles zipping...
Smart + Resilient Cities Utilities Rolling Out More Grid-Interactive Efficient Building Programs More U.S. utilities are adopting programs to promote grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs). GEBS will be critical to the grid of the...
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...
Opinion Companies Cancel Policies and Raise Premiums Residents of California are struggling to find fire insurance policies to cover their houses after finding old policies cancelled or reduced...
Codes + Standards Undisclosed ICC Agreement With NAHB Allegedly Thwarts More Stringent Building Codes The International Code Council made an unpublicized deal with the National Association of Home Builders that has effectively blocked efforts...
Codes + Standards Hurricane Resilience Can Reduce South Carolina Homeowners' Insurance Cost Homes in South Carolina that have certain hurricane resilience features can save money on insurance for owners. Items such as impact glass...
Opinion California Wildfires Threaten to Make Housing Shortage Worse With Tens of Thousands of Homes at Risk As California wildfires rip through Los Angeles and Sonoma County, the flames threaten to damage housing valued at over $60 billion in the...
Resilient Construction Sea-Level Rise Could Cause Problems for Septic Systems Rising sea levels could cause problems for septic systems. Septic systems use leach fields that need to be fairly dry to work properly. As...