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Consumers over-confident in building codes in disaster-prone areas, study finds
By Danielle LingOver two-thirds of U.S. communities facing weather hazards lack current, relevant structural building codes.
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Over two-thirds of U.S. communities facing weather hazards lack current, relevant structural building codes.
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