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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) adopted a new rule with new accessibility guidelines for federal buildings. The rule establishes that pedestrian facilities in the public right-of-way are readily accessible to and usable by people with disabilities.
New York’s Building Code Council is set to include the All-Electric Buildings Act in its 2025 code update. The Act would ban natural gas and other fossil fuels in new buildings.
After a court struck down a first-in-the-nation ban on gas hookups in new buildings last year, voters in Berkeley, Calif., will have their say in November on a measure to tax large buildings that use natural gas.
Seattle’s mayor recently proposed that the city scale back a scheduled revamping of its building energy code to help boost housing production. The proposal would halt an update to the city’s multifamily and commercial building energy code that is scheduled to take effect later this year.
Vacuum dust collection, water-delivery systems, and respirators will be required.
Technology and regulations will be the drivers, says Navigant Research.
The new building code prevents any structure with more than three stories from being built from a CLT frame.
The proposal ‘would essentially rewrite the current 100-year flood standard.’
A nine-month limit has been proposed for some $100 million-plus projects.
Transit-oriented development and affordable housing are spurring the movement.
Products will now have to be labeled as compliant to the new rules.
The orders come after a rise in the number of deadly accidents that have occurred in the past few years.
What would it look like if achieving universal accessibility was an inspiring point of departure for a project's design process? Sasaki's Gina Ford focuses on Marina Plaza and the Cove, two key features of her firm's Chicago Riverwalk development.
RICS - the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors - will hold its fourth annual Summit of the Americas in Washington, D.C., April 3-5, 2016.
