Building inspectors play a vital role in ensuring that residential and commercial buildings are safe, structurally sound and up to code. Using their knowledge of construction technology, building ...

Chicago officials have kept a building inspector on the public payroll even though the inspector lost his driver’s license–a basic requirement for the job–after a drunken-driving conviction more than ...

Three years after a third-story balcony of a Port Royal townhouse collapsed, severely injuring a man who lived there, a S.C. state agency has stripped a Port Royal building codes inspector of his ...