EVERETT — If you own land just outside downtown, new rules being considered by the Everett City Council could affect how your property can be developed. On the flip side, the new rules could protect ...

On its surface, the effort to create new design standards for the 100 block of Minturn might seem to be an unexciting affair. Countless hours have been spent over the course of the last year ...

The newly updated Standard 169, Climatic Data for Building Design Standards, provides a variety of climatic information for designing, planning and sizing building energy systems and equipment. An ...

In 2024 through November 1, there were 24 confirmed weather and climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each that have affected the U.S., according to the National Centers for ...

The city of Kalispell is taking a step back in time as city representatives get to work on the first draft of a set of design standards for historical buildings in the downtown area. In February, the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Businesses with large windows, sufficient lighting, access control and generally clean exteriors are less likely to be hit by crime because of an increase in the perceived ...

Senior Associate Tony Perez of Berkeley-based Opticos Design Inc., which was hired to prepare the standards, says creating objective design standards for Santa Barbara was easy because of all the ...