JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Hurricanes have proven to be costly in Florida. Most recently, Category 5 Michael devastated parts of the Florida Panhandle last October. As Andrew showed South Floridians in 1992 ...

PORT ST. LUCIE — As evidence of the City’s progress on its strategic goal of being a high-performing organization, the Building Officials Association of Florida recently named City of Port St. Lucie ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A high-rise building partially collapsed early Thursday morning in Surfside, Florida, not far from Miami Beach, killing at least one person. At the time of this article, rescue teams are ...

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Permits for the RISE Doro show it hired a private company to do some of its inspections while the structure was being built. News4JAX has been digging into why some contractors ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Across Florida, people living in the thousands of condominiums rising above the state’s 1,350 miles of coastline wonder if the building collapse in Surfside could happen to ...

After the devastation of Hurricane Michael, University of Florida professor David Prevatt surveyed the damage and wrote a report about the impact on Florida homes. His report stated that homes built ...