As Jan. 1 approaches, land use, construction and municipal law practitioners should advise all municipalities and municipal code officials, designers, contractors and builders across the commonwealth, ...

Everything from the number of 2-by-4s used to build a wall in a house to the amount of insulation in attics and crawl spaces is covered in the statute. The code replaces a medley of local standards ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Pennsylvania Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) approved the update of its state building code, the Uniform Construction Code (UCC), based on the 2015 International ...

What is the Uniform Construction Code that becomes law in Pennsylvania on Thursday? It is actually several internationally accepted building codes for every component in a building including its ...

The 30 exceptions set forth in Section 708(b) of RTKL are not an exhaustive list of records that can or must be withheld from disclosure under the RTKL. Instead, Section 102 of the RTKL contains a ...

In 1999 the General Assembly adopted the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act directing the Department of Labor and Industry to promulgate uniform standards for new construction that would be applicable ...

Notice is hereby given that the Conestoga Valley Uniform Construction Code Board of Appeals, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on June 27, 2022, at 7:00 PM, prevailing time, at the Upper Leacock ...

(TNS) - Pennsylvania’s new update to its plan for addressing climate change endorses the seemingly inoffensive idea that the state should adopt current building energy codes — those guides that ...

At the May 29, 2013 meeting of Pennsylvania’s Uniform Construction Code Review and Advisory Council (the RAC), the RAC approved recommendations to the General Assembly that, if adopted, would ...

The Northeastern Lancaster County Building Code Board of Appeals serves as a joint uniform construction code board of appeals for Earl, East Earl, Caernarvon and Brecknock Townships and the Borough of ...