Mar. 21—The Cumberland County Commission approved an updated fee schedule for the residential and commercial building codes department with a life safety/occupancy inspection fee of $250. This is the ...

Members of the City Council are considering creating an additional chapter under Title 1 of city code and a new section under ...

WATERLOO -- New homes built in rural Black Hawk County will be subject to heating, electrical and plumbing inspections for the first time ever. While previous efforts to adopt such specialty ...

People often refer to inspections in generic terms–and in so doing, get the entire concept of code enforcement mixed up. An inspection is an inspection, right? The answer is no. For those involved in ...

Homebuilders — always, everywhere, and all at once — face challenges when it comes to securing timely building inspections they require in their build cycles to “progress” and complete new homes for ...

A city “scarred and shaped by fire” is inviting more of the same by inspecting over a 12-month period just 17% of the buildings in its database for fire code violations and failing to maintain an ...

After almost one year after the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, the Florida Legislature passed SB 4-D on May 25, 2022. SB-4-D calls for stricter requirements for the ...

ALBANY -- Many rental-apartment inspections are languishing more than a year behind schedule while code officials are not inspecting most large commercial buildings at all, in violation of state law, ...

AMBULANCES AND POLICE IN MY LIFE ALL AT ONCE. IT LOOKS LIKE 9/11. >> SHOCKED FROM WITNESSES FOR AFTER A BEACHSIDE BUILDING COLLAPSES IN SOUTH FOR THE THURSDAY MORNING. >> WITHOUT KNOWING THE HISTORY ...

Reporting from Oakland — On Monday, three days after 36 people died in a fire at an Oakland warehouse, city building code inspectors sprang into action. They descended on five other warehouses that ...