An agreement by the American Society of Civil Engineers and National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration outlines plans to ensure U.S.
infrastructure is designed to be more resilient and “climate-ready.”
Rescue operations end and recovery begins after twisters, uncommon for this month, swept through the Ohio River Valley, collapsing an Illinois Amazon distribution facility and a Kentucky candle factory.
Judging from the court docket, there’s been a four-month period of comparative legal silence in the copyright violation lawsuit by the International Code Council, which publishes the model building code widely used in North America, against UpCodes, a San Francisco-based company that provides searchable databases of published state and local building codes and related tools for designers.
On Nov. 19, the five-person Marin County, Calif., board of supervisors unanimously approved the nation’s first low-carbon concrete code that applies to both public and private construction.
Six months after an explosion and fire destroyed a grid-connected energy-storage battery facility in Surprise, Ariz., investigators are still trying to figure out all that happened.