As Pacific Palisades Rebounds, It’s Robots That Are Doing the Heavy Lifting

Barely 15 months since the wildfires that devastated tens of thousands of acres, the rebuilding process is in full swing. They are still counting up the toll, but between the Palisades fire and the nearby Eaton fire in California last January, 30 lives were lost and as many as 14,000 structures were destroyed over the […]

California Reverses Itself, Exempting Projects from Eco Law

In a stunning turnaround in a state with some of the strictest environmental laws in the country, many construction projects will now be excluded from protectionist laws. The YIMBY — Yes In My Back Yard — faction has won a major victory in the country’s most populous state with the signing into law by Gov. […]

California Builders Have a New Challenge: Embodied Carbon Laws

Already the state with the strictest environmental laws in the country, California has enacted new mandatory measures in its building codes to reduce embodied carbon. California has become the first state in the country to enact new building codes that limit carbon emissions in the construction, remodeling, or adaptive use of certain structures. According to […]