Colorado has officially adopted a new building code designed to make homes and offices more climate-friendly without further inflating the state's high cost of living. The Colorado Energy Office ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A construction worker balances atop a roof. States and cities are loosening building code requirements in an effort to lower ...

Local governments are inching closer to enforcing wildfire-ready building codes that aim to save lives and stave off catastrophic property destruction during fires. As of Wednesday, cities, counties ...