Last July the AIACC asked its members to weigh-in on the alignment of the California Building Code and the ADA. As a result of those efforts, at the July 19, ...

Legislation to Limit Health Care Options Dies Legislation that the AIACC opposed along with several other groups, was pulled from consideration in the last days of this Legislative session: SB ...

The Center for Cities & Schools at the University of California, Berkeley, recently released a report on school facilities commission by the California Department of Education. The report “identifies key ...

This article is part of a regular series about some of the latest developments heard in legislative circles “around town”. Court Construction Funding Taken For the second year in a ...

The California Architects Board (CAB) Board has approved proposed legislation to accept individual taxpayer ID numbers in lieu of social security numbers for foreign-licensed professionals pursuing licensure in California. In ...

Governor Jerry Brown has issued an Executive Order directing state agencies and departments to take immediate steps to make state government buildings more sustainable and energy efficient. The government order ...

In response to strong opposition from a diverse coalition, the author of AB 2482, Assembly Member Fiona Ma, dropped her interior design Practice Act bill from further consideration, meaning it ...

This article is the first in a regular series about some of the latest developments heard in legislative circles “around town.” Interior Design Practice Act So far, this bill has ...

Chet Widom, FAIA was appointed as California’s 19th State Architect on January 1, 2012. During the interview process, Governor Brown charged Chet with a complex design problem: to redesign state ...

The AIACC’s Advocacy Advisory Committee, a committee comprising architects from many types of practice, an attorney, and an insurer, are set to review more than 60 bills introduced by the ...