CALGreen is similar in scope to LEED – the world’s best known green building rating tool – but there is a crucial difference. While LEED is a voluntary performance standard that awards certificates for good practice, California’s new system is compulsor

A groundbreaking green building code in the western United States could help boost sustainable construction standards globally. If you visited a construction site in California over the past decade, the chances are good it incorporated some degree of s

U.S. building seismic code development show a learned technical support in all areas of the national norms toward reunification process seismic code can be roughly divided into the following three phases:

Older buildings in California should be retrofitted to help them better withstand an earthquake. California is famous for its pristine beaches, wild mountains, warm people ... and earthquakes. Second only to Alaska as the U.S. state that experiences th