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Southern Pine Inspection Bureau publishes new design values effective June 1

BD+C

13 to the 2002 Standard Grading Rules for Southern Pine Lumber on Feb. New design values, effective June 1, apply only to new construction; the integrity of existing structures designed and built using design values meeting applicable building codes at the time of permitting does not change. read more.

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Read About the Latest News on US Housing Starts Dropping, Permits Are Rising, and US Military Construction

Construction Daily News

In today’s construction news, learn about a spike in permits that revealed that the lack of available housing continued to boost new construction even if U.S. Meanwhile, building permits for single-family homes increased at their quickest rate since May 2022, a sign of confidence in future demand. to 535,000 units.

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Read About the Latest News on US Housing Starts Dropping, Permits are Rising, and US Military Construction

Construction Daily News

In today’s construction news, learn about a spike in permits that revealed that the lack of available housing continued to boost new construction even if U.S. Meanwhile, building permits for single-family homes increased at their quickest rate since May 2022, a sign of confidence in future demand. to 535,000 units.

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Construction Marketing Secret: Architecture Billings a Leading Indicator of Construction

Construction Marketing

Given that construction decisions are made by hundreds of thousands of businesses, nonprofit institutions, and government organizations, it is extremely difficult to get comprehensive information on building plans. 1 ] Construction spending for nonresidential buildings totaled more than $330 billion in 2004, according to data from the U.S.

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TCC’s judgment in Martlet v Mulalley, a cladding fire safety dispute

Practical Law Construction

They are a consequence of the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, which led to a wave of inspections, investigations and scrutiny across the UK as building owners sought to ascertain whether or not their buildings were similarly defective. Martlet v Mulalley: background. A judgment of wider applicability?

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#68:? Energy Code Compliance

NH Construction Law

RSA 155-D, first enacted in 1979 before the international building codes came into prominence, has largely been redundant since New Hampshire’s adoption of the International Energy Conservation Code as part of its state building code ( RSA 155-A ) in 2002. HB 1472 was intended to clean up that redundancy. Section 103.1

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Two Week Natural Building Intensive

Natural Building

Most of each day will be spent practicing a wide range of hands-on natural building systems, some ancient and time-tested, others experimental. The building you see here is the building we will be working on. He helped organize the first Natural Building Colloquium in 1994. Instructors: Michael G.