Most homeowners assume that if a house was legal when it was built, it will stay that way. The surprise comes when you open ...
An international group that develops building codes adopted by a wide swath of U.S. cities and counties abruptly pared back a plan to force new homes to be more climate-friendly. The International ...
In the wake of Hurricane Helene, two feet of rain fell on western North Carolina, damaging or sweeping away thousands of houses in landslides and floods. At least 101 people died. In many cases, ...
Walk into almost any house built before modern building codes and you can feel it in the air: rooms that never quite dry out, ...