Items Tagged with 'legal issues in AEC'

After columns buckled at a Midtown conversion, experts explain how specialty contractors should respond to structural movement, damaged assemblies and potential liability.

The American Institute of Architects celebrated the enactment of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, landmark bipartisan legislation that takes meaningful steps to address the nation's housing shortage and improve access to affordable housing.

The American Institute of Architects and a coalition of nonprofit organizations focused on architecture, historic preservation, and National Parks stewardship filed an amicus curiae brief on May 27, 2026, in National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States v. National Park Service.

The construction industry is facing mounting backlash over a controversial licensing and software initiative tied to the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and its widely used classification systems, including MasterFormat, UniFormat and OmniClass.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is supporting for the bipartisan Fixing Emergency Management for Americans Act of 2025.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is calling on lawmakers to elevate Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to an independent Cabinet level agency outside of the Department of Homeland Security.

A coalition of eight leading cultural heritage and architectural organizations jointly represented by three law firms filed suit in federal district court in Washington, DC seeking to require the Trump administration to comply with historic preservation laws before implementing the President’s plans to further alter the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Industry groups unite to defend sound building science against proposed rules for new public facilities. 

The Supreme Court's 6–3 ruling invalidates the broad emergency tariffs the Trump administration imposed on imports from nearly all trading partners. For the AEC industry, the decision removes one major cost pressure — but Section 232 duties on steel and aluminum stay in place, and any pricing relief is likely to arrive slowly.

EIMA’s first legislative fly-in will bring EIFS stakeholders to Capitol Hill to educate lawmakers on how policy decisions affect cladding, housing affordability, jobs, and workforce development.