Fatal collapse of the stage at the Indiana State Fair in 2011 ignited interest in the safety of public-occupancy outdoor-event structures, which in many cases are not engineered to resist ...

ICC used its new—and controversial—consensus standard process to develop the 2024 IECC, rather than having U.S. building officials vote on the final draft. Sustainability advocates are censuring the ...

More than a quarter of a century ago, the American Institute of Architects called for a single, national building code. The benefits were obvious &m> major developers, designers and contractors would ...

The International Code Council (ICC), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and the Illuminating Engineering ...

The terrorists who attacked on Sept. 11 committed one, purely inadvertent act of charity: They struck early. By plowing American Airlines Flight 11 into the north tower at 8:46 a.m., they hit a ...