This week, FEMA released its landmark study, “Building Codes Save: A National Study,” featuring an in-depth look at the quantified benefits—avoided losses to buildings and building contents—from ...

What would you say is responsible for the rising case of building collapse in the country? Building collapse has been a major challenge in Nigeria, leading to massive economic and human loss due to ...

QUINCY, MASS. — The National Fire Protection Association upped the ante in the competition for national building code dominance July 19 when it released its first building code. NFPA’s Standards ...

Lands Cabinet Secretary Alice (third right) during the launch of the Training and Sensitization of The National Building Code 2024, on January 14, 2025, at Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi. [James Wanzala, ...

MANILA, Philippines — Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon has ordered a long overdue review of the National Building Code, nearly five decades after it was enacted. Under Special Order No. 155 issued ...

IN the aftermath of last Sunday’s tragic building collapse in Angeles City, Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon issued an order to immediately conduct a review of the Philippines’ almost 50-year-old ...

A former President of the World Federation of Engineering Organisation, Mustafa Shehu, has said that Nigeria lacks a mandatory national building code that is uniformly adopted and enforced across all ...