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Building code uniformity raises local control questions (access required)

Published: May 15, 2013
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Advocates of a uniform code for commercial buildings are developing a compromise they concede would remove much of the uniformity from their proposal.

Strength in numbers: St. Catherine’s Medical Center Campus Vertical Expansion

Published: May 3, 2012
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St. Catherine’s Medical Center’s three-story vertical expansion not only made the building taller, it made it stronger.

State inches closer to international building code (access required)

Published: February 8, 2011
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By Marie Rohde Wisconsin is on the verge of adopting the 2009 international building code, leaving some to wonder why the state took so long to embrace the construction standards. “It is way wrong that we have not adopted the 2009 building code,” said Ed Ruckriegel, fire marshal with the Madison Fire Department and a [...]