Most medium and large construction jobs are handled by a general contractor or G.C. The general contractor may be called a builder,...

Courts have found that a wide variety of local concerns fall within this authority, including maintaining socio-economic balance,...

What’s in Fiber Cement? The basic recipe has just four ingredients. Water: Dissolves the wood pulp; activates and hardens the cement. ...

There are plenty of excellent insulation materials on the market today. Many of these have been around for quite some time. Each of these...

The National League of Cities’ Sustainable Cities Institute defines urban infill as “new development that is sited on vacant or...

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is one approach to incorporating public transportation within a city that may not have the space or fiscal...

Except in remote areas, land use is governed by zoning codes, created by planners employed by local governments, which establish zoning...

Title 24 is made up of 12 parts: Part 1 – California Administrative Code Part 2 – California Building Codes, Volumes 1 and 2, based on...

The new substantive rules include the following: • ADUs shall not be required to provide fire sprinklers if not required for the primary...

With this most recent set of revisions, the commission is striving toward a pair of new state efficiency targets: achieving net zero...

232 River Street, Santa Cruz: An Example of Affordable Housing Infill. As affordable housing developers build in inclusionary zoning...

Cradle to Cradle models human industry on nature’s processes viewing materials as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. It...

In a city so based on order and symmetry and strong axes, why is the Washington Monument not on axis?! It took me a bit of online...

Over the past couple of decades, architects and builders looking to green their projects turned to the addition of various piecemeal...

Traditional zoning was d Today, much commercial development is environmentally benign, and there are often advantages to locating...

The location of different land uses relative to one another has a strong impact on how people travel between and to/from them.  The...

By way of example it may be useful to look at how this contributes to the design of a home. For a private residence, your architect will...

Are you in the process of designing and building your dream home, cottage, or ranch? If so, you are probably overwhelmed by the sheer...

Commission Among his other credentials, Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the principal architects of the cemeteries and...

Here is a found essay, originally posted by dxallen23, describing such a vision… My Dreamhouse Simplicity is beauty. That’s what people...