Colorado taking steps to try to limit increases in homeowners insurance
Colorado’s housing affordability crisis, which has made recruitment and retention more difficult for employers statewide, is not just an issue of home costs but of…
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Colorado board approves energy-efficient building codes that favor electric heating over gas-powered appliances
Colorado officials approved building codes Friday for new residential and commercial structures that demand more energy efficiency and do so in specific ways that favor…
Board will consider sweeping — and potentially costly — homebuilding mandates
An Energy Code Board set up by a 2022 law will vote next week on recommendations that could require future homes to be built to…
Three bills — and a gubernatorial mandate — could boost housing construction
If the 2024 session will be remembered as the one in which the Colorado Legislature pushed cities to allow for denser housing construction, the 2025…
2025 legislative review: Business wins, a few losses and more battles to come
The 2025 legislative session was one where business leaders engaged early — rallying against the first bill to get a Senate committee hearing — and…
Big decisions on workers’ comp and construction-lawsuits bills mark session’s last day
Colorado legislators closed the 2025 session with a flurry of activity Wednesday, killing a measure that could have interfered with construction-defects reform, passing several health-care…
Architects, engineers: Legislators advancing bill that could cancel out construction-defects reform
Even as legislators are advancing construction-defects reform, a subset of construction professionals point to another bill moving quietly through the Legislature and argue it could…
Builders explain why construction-defects reform bill may not restart condo market
Even after members of a key Senate committee rallied around a construction-defects reform bill this week, homebuilders continue to have serious questions about whether it…
Construction-defects reform bill getting support. But will it get condos built?
After the addition of eight amendments meant to salve critics, sponsors of a construction-defects reform bill watched it pass the House Monday by a 59-5…
Construction-defects reform decisively clears major hurdle
Given the choice between very different approaches to addressing construction-defects law, Colorado legislators on Tuesday overwhelmingly backed a bill to make it harder for condo…