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Items Tagged with 'building codes'

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San Francisco Likely To Require All-Electric Power in New Construction

November 18, 2020
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San Francisco is on the verge of amending its building code to require new construction to use only electric power.


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Time to Settle the Building Code Lawsuit

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Richard Korman
January 15, 2020
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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.
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Who Owns The Building Code? A Tech Startup's Challenge

A copyright lawsuit against web-based startup UpCodes heads closer to trial
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Jonathan Barnes
December 16, 2019
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The International Code Council is defending its copyright.
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Marin County, Calif., Enacts First Low-Carbon Concrete Code in US

November 27, 2019
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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.


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With Lithium-Ion Batteries, Fire Hazard Remains Unsolved

Thomas F. Armistead
October 23, 2019
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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. 


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After Grenfell Tower

Do Tests For Combustible Exterior Building Walls Match Real-Life Fire Intensity?

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Richard Korman
October 23, 2019
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For more than two decades, science has recognized that building fires have become hotter, faster-spreading and more toxic. 


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Chicago Makes First Major Update to City's Building Code in 70 Years

April 24, 2019
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The City Council recently voted to adopt a major update to the Chicago Building Code, its first in 70 years, that will better align it with the International Code Council’s International Building Code.


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Future Disasters

California Towns Rebuild After Wildfires With Resilience in Mind

What is happening in Paradise and Santa Rosa
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Pam Radtke Russell
April 10, 2019
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Faced with more wildfires and growing populations, communities like Paradise, Calif., work to mitigate fire risk
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Hazard Mitigation

Adopting Latest Codes Helps Mitigate Natural Hazards, Study Says

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Nadine M. Post
January 23, 2019
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An update of a National Institute of Building Sciences study on benefit-to-cost ratios of hazard-mitigation investments has determined an 11:1 BCR over time for jurisdictions that have adopted model building code updates versus those that still use codes from the 1990s.


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California Begins To Consider Solar on Commercial Buildings

Peter Maloney
July 11, 2018
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After approving a 2019 building code that requires all new homes in the state to have rooftop solar panels starting in 2020, the California Energy Commission is now eyeing commercial buildings.


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