New 2025 California Building Standards Code takes effect on January 1, impacting construction permits and regulations.

An amendment to the California building code going into effect July 1 will require owners of new buildings 100K SF or larger to comply with a set of rules aimed at reducing embodied carbon. This ...

At the end of June, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law AB 130, a sweeping bill that aims to make it easier to build housing, reforms that many lawmakers and experts agree are long ...

Permit Sonoma’s Building Division is preparing for the upcoming changes to the California Building Standards Code, which take ...

California is now the first state in the country to formally implement general code requirements for reducing embodied carbon in the built environment. “It can take up to 80 years to overcome embodied ...

I'm preparing to run CAT5e through my crawlspace and through some walls. I'd like to do it to code if I can. I'd like to know what is required before I buy materials (to figure out if I need plenum ...