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Los Angeles wildfires spark interest in adobe, natural building materials
Pedersen was one of about 40 people who joined a recent workshop on the eastern side of Los Angeles to brainstorm a way forward with so-called natural building techniques. On the west side ...
NPR28d
What LA did right before the fires — and why it wasn't enough
Los Angeles County already has strict wildfire building codes for homes and has passed rules that limit new development in wildfire-prone areas. Still, the ferocity of the fires exceeded what ...
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Letter to the Editor | Los Angeles fires are a call for new building codes
It seems the lesson from the catastrophic Los Angeles fire is the necessity of an entirely new approach to building codes in fire-prone regions of the country. Today's building codes didn't come ...
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Issues Executive Order to Waive All-Electric Building Requirement for Rebuilding After Los Angeles Wildfires
waiving the requirement that all new buildings be fully electric under Los Angeles’ All-Electric Building Code. A key provision of the Order is the suspension of Ordinance No. 187,714 ...
ABC 10 News1mon
Newsom waives building permits to help Los Angeles rebuild faster
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - The thousands of Los Angeles residents who lost their ... to help streamline the rebuilding process by waiving two building permits for homeowners and businesses.
U.S. News & World Report21d
Los Angeles Wildfires Spark Interest in Adobe, Natural Building Materials
Los Angeles Wildfires Spark Interest in Adobe, Natural Building Materials By Peter Henderson ALTADENA, California (Reuters) - Marialyce Pedersen stood in a white Tyvek suit on her Altadena ...