The structural safety of the buildings we live and work in is not something that many of us think about. In the event of an earthquake, how protected are you, your family, and your belongings from the ...

Built from a simple bamboo structure, these one-room homes provide a new blueprint for resilient disaster housing.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat announced in Dubai that current codes of practice around the world are inadequate for the seismic design of tall buildings and has called for a more ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Salt corrodes buildings. Earthquakes shake them. What happens when an earthquake hits a building already damaged by saltwater? The answer to that question, the National Science ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Researchers at UC ...

USC wrote in a statement to the Daily Trojan, that it had retrofitted Mudd Hall, Webb Tower, Phillips Hall and the Dramatic Arts Building since 2003. However, it acknowledged not all buildings were in ...

KATHMANDU, Jan 16: Several private and government buildings and other physical structures were vandalized and torched during ...

Thailand: A devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Thailand and neighboring Myanmar on Friday, March 28, reportedly leaving dozens buried under rubble and more than 20 people dead. While some ...