North American building materials' industry: TimberBoard(TM), the company's rigid wood fiber board insulation, has officially earned ICC-ES Evaluation Report ESR-5387, confirming compliance with the ...

CarbonCast High Performance Insulated Wall Panels, manufactured by AltusGroup precasters in North America, have had their evaluation report (ESR#2953) renewed by ICC Evaluation Service (ICC-ES), ...

A federal judge in New York City has ordered a trial in a case that will decide, in essence, who owns the model building code that sets legal safety minimums adopted by many states and cities. That’s ...

WASHINGTON — Ten years ago, if a nationwide retailer or manufacturer wanted to build a new facility, the code requirements for the same structure would have been different in the East, Midwest, South ...

ATLANTA - The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), International Code Council (ICC), U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and Illuminating Engineering ...

A new and somewhat tighter set of performance standards will apply to SBC Illinois next year under an order adopted Monday by the Illinois Commerce Commission. State regulators adopted the standards ...

On Feb. 1, 2003, when three regional code organizations — Building Officials and Code Administrators, International Conference of Building Officials and Southern Building Code Congress International — ...