Mount Vernon’s long-maligned Department of Buildings could face a takeover by New York state in August if it fails to remedy serious deficiencies in the city’s enforcement of the state Fire Prevention ...

NORRISTOWN >> Many residents are familiar with the municipality’s Building and Code Enforcement Department. When buying, selling or renting a property, or when a complaint arises over high grass, ...

In the early morning hours of Feb. 6, 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the southcentral region of Turkey, with severe ground shaking extending over the northwestern region of Syria. In just ...

National Building Code: Disregarded all along. Despite tragic loss of lives and properties in repeated building disasters, the country’s national building code has been lying largely unimplemented for ...

ALBANY — Inadequate enforcement of building codes has had tragic consequences in New York, with lives of occupants and first responders lost in deadly fires linked to unsafe conditions, according to ...

Puerto Rico has adopted building codes that include some of the strictest standards in the world when it comes to hurricane resistance. But there’s a big problem: Bad enforcement. About 55% of all ...

Bothered by increasing cases of building collapse, estate developers under the aegis of the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) have called for strict enforcement of the National ...

Effective February 14th, City of Erie Code Enforcement will follow an updated international building code. Across the commonwealth, an updated international building code went into effect. The city’s ...

WATERTOWN, N.Y. – Eleven Old Order Amish families filed a religious discrimination lawsuit in federal court Tuesday, claiming a northern New York community is targeting them for building code ...