Expansive new FEMA flood zones have New York and New Jersey residents complaining. But in Vermont, the old maps have left flooded-out homeowners high and dry.
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Sales and prices are up, and inventories are low. Builders need to boost production, but the supply of skilled trades is tight.
A Colorado general contractor’s day in court is approaching in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by relatives of a family poisoned by carbon monoxide at a ski chalet.
Unrelated incidents involving collapsed excavations have critically injured one construction worker in Lincoln, Nebraska, and killed a worker in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Connecticut authorities have ordered 27 jobs to a halt in the state because employers were paying employees as subcontractors and failing to obtain workers comp coverage.
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As homebuilding starts to surge, materials prices are surging too.
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New floodplain maps combined with rising flood insurance premiums will hammer residents of Somerset County, Maryland, according to a press report.
Hawaiians can act as their own general contractor without any license under current law. But that may change this year.
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Bills under consideration by the North Carolina legislature could dramatically alter local enforcement of codes and zoning.
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Three years in the Federal pen: that’s the sentence for cooking the books in insurance restoration work.
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North Carolina’s House has voted for a measure that would lengthen the code revision cycle and limit local inspections.
A deck on a Gulf Shores, Alabama, rental property failed suddenly under the weight of students at a spring break party.
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Although birth tourism itself is not illegal, critics charge that the practice has led to the creation of overcrowded and illegal "maternity hotels".
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The New Energy Efficient Home Tax Credit was extended to the end of 2013.
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Heat-reflecting asphalt can be as much as 40° cooler.
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California builders are reportedly pleased with the newest version of the state’s building code.
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Equipped with wrenches and torches, thieves got away with a whole building in Baker, Minnesota.
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Can a town use zoning rules to require the use of wildfire-resistant roofing material? That’s the question at the heart of a lawsuit in Helena, Montana.
Lancaster, California Mayor Rex Parris wants to require solar panels on every new house in town — and he says he’s got the City Council votes to do it.
People like blue cheese. Why not blue-stained beetle-killed wood?