Oct. 6—The city of Abilene is in the process of updating their building and fire codes to the International Code Council's 2018 codes with some amendments. While the majority of the codes pertain to ...

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There’s a lot to building a deck. And if you want to build your own deck or renovate one, you’ll find much of the advice centers on building codes and topics like laying out floor joists or how to lay ...

To prevent racking, a kind of building stress often caused by horizontal pressure of the wind, you need to install diagonal bracing under the floor joists. I happened to use two 2x6s that extend from ...

MIAMIMIAMI — The swimming pool deck of a beachfront South Florida condominium that collapsed two years ago, killing 98 people, failed to comply with the original building codes and standards, with ...