The historic Nancy J. Land Building, the YWCA's downtown Knoxville headquarters, was transformed over the past year. See ...

Cleveland has issued more than 9,000 tickets and $1.7 million worth of fines to those who flout the city’s housing code.

Recommending against approval of an apartment building proposed for Delaware Avenue, planning commissioners didn’t hold back while describing what they thought of the design.

For an hour on the Sunday before Epiphany, inside the warm, welcoming confines of the 110-year-old Oak Lawn United Methodist Church, it still felt like ...

Single-stair building code reforms are spreading as states and cities seek more small multifamily housing while maintaining ...

Simple stairs have just two components. The flat board that your foot steps on is called a tread. The treads connect to side stringers and sometimes to one that is in the middle of the stairs. The ...

Toners, are you looking to remodel your home? Check out these features that seem harmless but can violate building codes ...

The city’s top building official says it would take tens of millions of dollars to restore the landmark tower to its former ...

I feel it’s important for you to understand the structure of a set of stairs before you get out your saw and framing square.

One owner of a dilapidated building in downtown Binghamton has been convicted on 50 code-related charges while the other one ...

Bend could make more room for housing. It’s not simple. It’s about trade-offs. And this one pits more housing against concerns for fire safety. Bend could take advantage of a recent change in Oregon ...

New updates to Denver's building and fire codes now permit single-stair building construction. The changes, according to city offcials, aim to open up more opportunities to building on smaller lots.