The results of building evaluation and feed back have been used for centuries, particularly following a major building failure. These evaluations have resulted in regulations that historically have often been the only systematic and research-based source of direction to building design. Regulations evolved into building codes, which began to control critical aspects of buildings. Over the years...

An investigation of 24 buildings in the Greater Boston Area revealed that one-third (8 of 24) contained caulking materials with polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) content exceeding 50 ppm by weight, which is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) specified limit above which this material is considered to be PCB bulk product waste. These buildings included schools and other public build...

Canada’s federal government intends to take steps to implement national pharmacare so that all Canadians have prescription drug coverage they need at an affordable price. Relatively limited funds have so far been pledged to support national pharmacare, which raises the question: what kind of program is envisioned? Since the government has already introduced regulations intended to reduce new dr...

This article outlines and discusses Brazil's new regulations on the use of human biological materials for research, specifically, Resolution CNS 441/11, enacted by the National Health Council of Brazil in May 2011, and the National Guidelines for Biorepositories and Biobanks (Ordinance No. 2201) published by the Ministry of Health in September 2011. The authors examine the differences between s...

Background: Many research and development efforts have been made for automated compliance checking of building designs with regulatory requirements, but there is a lack of a non-proprietary and user-understandable representation of building regulations to support automated compliance checking in the construction domain that is experimentally tested for understandability and reading speed. Metho...

Every year, Australia identifies 2-3 outbreaks associated with imported foods. To examine national authorities' obligations under the International Health Regulations (2005), we reviewed outbreaks in 2001-2007 that implicated internationally distributed foods. Under these regulations, 6 (43%) [corrected] of 14 outbreaks would have required notification to the World Health Organization.

This paper focuses on understanding the place for regenerative building standards within context of politically green Nordic social welfare states. To this end, it examines particular case adopting Living Building Challenge (LBC), an iconic example design standard, in Sweden. An extensive document analysis comparing Swedish and planning regulations as well Miljöbyggnad national certification sy...

1 Coordination and Integration 1.1 Improve coordination of stakeholders and various role-players, including civil society, food industry, public and private institutions, academia Building partnerships with various stakeholders to improve the nutritional status of South Africans is a key feature of success. One of the exemplary partnerships were formed with the milling and premix supplier indus...

National legal and political regulation in the field of energy efficiency is closely connected to minimizing consumption buildings. Within framework implementing Directive 2018/844/EU on performance buildings Europe, practice its application differs from country country. This study aims reveal differences indicators an energy-efficient building European states. To that end, analysis was made co...