The Bureau of Indian Standards panel emphasizes the necessity of fire safety provisions in the National Building Code, ...

Citing recent incidents of fatal building fires in Delhi, Odisha and Goa, a technical committee of the Bureau of Indian ...

After raising concerns in December about a proposed change to the fire code that would require sprinkler systems in more ...

The National Building Code (NBC) will be replaced by a National Building Standard (NBS) by April-end, giving states and ...

Ahead of updating the city’s guiding documents and plans, Tupelo officials have agreed to revise its fire prevention and ...

Firefighters respond to a five-alarm fire in a row of apartment buildings in Queens, N.Y., on Jan. 6. (Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily News/TNS) A New Year’s celebration in the Swiss Alps turned ...

South Whitehall Township is considering changes to its building, residential, plumbing, fire and property maintenance codes.

The building where a floor collapsed at a Tamworth wedding venue Saturday evening predates New Hampshire’s building code, the State Fire Marshal’s Office said. More than 100 guests were on the floor ...

Rethinking the building code to allow single-stairwell buildings brought more small-lot, mid-rise apartments to the city—and ...

The Cortez City Council on Tuesday adopted a state-authored building code intended to reduce wildfire spread in areas ...

The State Fire Prevention and Building Code Council will meet March 31 at 10 a.m. via videoconference. The meeting will be held at three locations in Albany, New York City and Buffalo, with remote ...

The ceremony had just begun when 70 people dropped into the basement ...