Toon Dreessen is president of Architects DCA. He is a past president of the Ontario Association of Architects. Building codes represent a jurisdiction’s minimum standard for safe structures, and were ...

P.E.I.'s run as the only Canadian province that hasn't adopted the National Building Code could be nearing an end. This week, the Building Code Act was tabled by the provincial government and read a ...

This article was originally published in BIV Magazine's Climate Change issue. In December 2017 the B.C. government introduced the ambitious BC Energy Step Code, a building code with five steps towards ...

They've become impossible to miss in cities such as Toronto and Vancouver: giant condo towers that soar higher than even Bay Street's bank towers. But the building industry's fixation with ...

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The Ministry of Works yesterday teamed with the Bahamas of Society of Engineers (BSE) for a seminar on modernising and upgrading the building code. Antoinette Thompson, the Ministry's permanent ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The International Code Council, a member of the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), will be presenting at COP28 throughout the two-week event. Held this year ...