Roberta Lalonde lived by herself in a condo building for people over 55 when the deadliest weather event in Canadian history began in British Columbia on June 25, 2021. For a week, high atmospheric ...

The Manitoba government is considering new building code regulations that critics contend would lower the bar for energy efficiency requirements. Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com Read ...

A new change to the National Building Code of Canada 2020 will require all newly-built single-detached homes in Calgary to adopt safer windows. The changes will limit how much a window can open on the ...

UBC's Tallwood House Student Residence under construction in 2016. The 18-storey structure was an exception to the building code at the time to show developers and the public how the wood that ...

Changes to Canada's building code should ensure new homes are safer, more energy-efficient and able to withstand the increasingly intense weather being produced by climate change, according to Josh ...

1:51 Edmonton rent-to-own housing units to be built for Paul First Nation members There is no way to enforce building or fire codes on First Nations and pursuing a legislative fix would require ...

The wake of Hurricane Andrew in Dade County, Fla., in August 1992. Fifty-four people died in the storm, which caused over $27 billion in damages and led to Florida’s adoption of a statewide building ...

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The goal was to make it easier to build more housing and address a shortage experts say caused housing costs to rise.