Construction Informer

In Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and New York there is an attempt underway to bend the building codes a bit. In all three states the Amish have sued local governments claiming the building code requirements run counter to their religious beliefs. Now, one group has made it a federal case.
In Morristown, NY, 11 families that belong to [...]

Just Build It Right: In Biskra, Algeria, the housing and town planning minister is cracking down on what he calls “urban anarchy” in building. Armed with additional funds the organizations that police compliance with building codes are imposing sanctions on builders who violate the “rules of urbanism and construction.” While a lot of the rest [...]

The U.S. Council of Mayors voted to support an initiative called The 30% Solution in an effort to bring the energy efficiency of buildings in line with the goal to one day get their greenhouse gas emissions reduced to zero. This will be no small feat as buildings account for 43 percent of the total [...]

Senate Bill 2191 in it’s simplest definition is an attempt to legislate a reduction in green house gas emissions through a trading scheme. This sounds like another opportunity for speculators to make some money, but of course there are many players who stand to reap some benefits. That has to be the case for any [...]

On second thought maybe you should just go to lunch together, and each of you buys your own. This is Building Safety Week, as advanced by the International Code Council, and it says some of the credit for safer buildings goes to all those people who ensure construction goes according to code. This includes not [...]

There is some legislation that has been signed into law that authorizes two billion dollars a year, over five years, in grants for communities to undertake energy efficiency and conservation efforts for things like:

Public buildings;
Transportation; and
Use of renewable energy.

The funding however has not been released for these efforts so the National [...]