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  1. @Chigaze I don't follow building code changes very closely [0], so I can't tell you if Alberta leads or follows. But it's mostly a technocratic matter, not ideological, so I wouldn't just assume that the political direction of the province has much to do with how it develops.

    Alberta is free to adopt the single staircase policy now. I'm not sure how the public could best put pressure onto the process.

    [0] I'm a CSA S6 guy, not an NBCC guy.

    #BuildingCodes

  2. Somebody I know was midway through a call today including #FEMA and having to do with resilience against flooding, involving various other agencies to coordinate advice to the public.

    During the call, #NPR announced that FEMA will no longer have anything to do with #BuildingCodes. FEMA participation and experience is retracted.

    This of course is insane.

    Our well being is falling apart.

  3. "Over the past 15 years, North Carolina lawmakers have rejected limits on construction on steep slopes, which might have reduced the number of homes lost to landslides; blocked a rule requiring homes to be elevated above the height of an expected flood; weakened protections for wetlands, increasing the risk of dangerous storm water runoff; and slowed the adoption of updated building codes, making it harder for the state to qualify for federal climate-resilience grants."

    Archived NYTimes article on GOP malfeasance in re: building codes in North Carolina

    The whole "home building industry" is a trash fire tbh.

    #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #BuildingCodes

    archive.is/q63Tb#selection-869

  4. The #Biden administration issued new minimum #EnergyStandards for homes built with federal dollars.

    A bundle of #BuildingCodes that set efficiency targets for insulation,windows, HVAC and other systems, the updated energy standards apply only to new #AffordableHousing construction built with federal financing or funding.

    All told, the average annual savings work out to $963 per household."

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
    #WhatBidenDid

  5. Morocco’s recent earthquake was not unexpected, as the country lies on a complex tectonic boundary that is prone to seismic activity. The earthquake revealed the lack of adequate building codes and enforcement in Morocco, where many structures are vulnerable to collapse. Morocco must improve its seismic resilience and preparedness and invest in retrofitting and reconstruction.

    #Earthquake #Morocco #BuildingCodes

    theconversation.com/moroccos-e?

  6. @croselund This essay clearly articulates a super important point for focusing our efforts on climate. Building much more #wind and #solar, and reducing demand for #enduses of those fuels (e.g. via #EVs, #buildingcodes & #fuelswitching), are the most effective and require most of our effort. Stopping new pipelines or new wells, e.g. #willow or #MountainValleyPipeline, has little or no effect. Counteritive, and not understood by many or most activists, right? This Medium article explains why.

  7. How Regulation Came to Be: Hotel Fires, pt. 2 (15th in series)

    An Atlanta hotel fire in December 1946 had a greater death toll than the three June 1946 hotel fires reviewed in the previous entry in this series, Hotel Fires pt. 1, combined.

    dailykos.com/stories/2009/11/1

    #HowRegulationCameToBe #Regulation #History #FireCodes #FireSafety #WinecoffHotel #Atlanta #BuildingCodes

  8. Building code compliance startup UpCodes gets $3.36M in pre-Series A funding - UpCodes, a startup that develops building code compliance tools, announced today it has raised $3.36... - feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #buildingcodes #architecture #construction #building #upcodes #tc

  9. ' There is no way to prevent an earthquake from occurring, but what can be prevented – or at least curtailed – is the scale of the calamity caused by these inevitable tremors.

    [Any] suggestion that a country cannot “be prepared” for an earthquake of the magnitude that hit Turkey and northern Syria is a political statement – that is, it reflects the political choices that were made rather than the science. '

    #Turkiye #Turkey #SeismicRisk #BuildingCodes #earthquake

    theconversation.com/earthquake