Vancouver, Canada’s third largest metropolitan area, has the country’s highest seismic risk. Recent simulations suggest that existing models used to develop current building codes have underestimated ...

Vancouver City Council has approved City staff's modified concepts of a single-egress staircase residential building design.

The Vancouver City Council gave the first of two required approvals to extend a moratorium on new warehouse projects of greater than 250,000 square feet in May. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian) With ...

The goal of making it easier for people to age in place led to amendments to Vancouver, B.C.’s building code including banning doorknobs in favor of lever handles. There are also changes to how ...