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Best Projects breakfast

Live and Virtual Construction Awards Events: On the Scene in New York

January 28, 2022
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ENR New York held its annual Regional Best Projects breakfast on Nov. 15 at The Lighthouse on Manhattan’s Chelsea Piers.


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Two Large-Footprint Buildings Brought Down by Dec. 10 Tornadoes

Kentucky and Illinois are declared disaster areas
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Jeff Yoders
December 13, 2021
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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.

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Construction Regulations

NYC City Council OKs Hundreds of 'Major' Building Code Updates

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James Leggate
October 11, 2021
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The sweeping updates include a slate of construction safety code changes.


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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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