Building Safety Month Promoted In May

Building Safety Month Promoted In May

To help raise public awareness of the critical role that building codes play in ensuring safe communities, the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance and the Tennessee State Fire Marshal’s Office are joining with the International Code Council to promote…

The Reality of Regulation: How Political Interference in Building Codes is Making Housing Unaffordable

This blog was provided by Intracorp  The home building industry is facing a myriad of challenges; from increasing municipal fees to a hesitant investment market. These issues are getting lots of attention, and for good reason. But the issue of an increasingly stringent building code is being overlooked by comparison. Below we set out to calculate the true cost of building to current code. The outcome is that overregulation in the housing sector …