Earlier this month, the City of Somerville held a public meeting to present and receive feedback on the latest design development for improvements to Union Square.  The consultants hired by the city, Howard Stein Hudson traffic and civil engineers, proposed some interesting solutions for this area, ...

Building codes, like all legal regulations, are in a continual state of update and revision.  On January 1st, 2010, Massachusetts adopted one such change as part of the Green Communities Act: an optional appendix to the Massachusetts Building Code, known as the “Stretch Energy Code”.  It will ...