Some places are more prone to hazards such as earthquakes, flooding and hurricanes, but there’s nowhere where the risk is zero. The good news is that humans can make good decisions to lower the odds ...

As businesses grapple with the current energy crisis and prepare for it to worsen, new research from JLL finds that these rising energy costs are expediting the move toward more efficient buildings.

The U.S. Department of Energy applauded Milwaukee recently for its energy-saving initiatives. The City is among 130 partners – ranging from municipal to commercial to industrial – that signed on to ...

After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, significant steps were taken to upgrade building codes. Many of those put in place a couple of years after the quake. Nearly two decades later, the City of Los ...

Living in the Bay Area comes with a constant reminder of the seismic fault lines that crisscross the region, as minor earthquakes occur regularly. These tremors serve as stark reminders of the ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Some of the buildings that collapsed during the massive earthquakes in Syria and Turkey are known as non-ductile concrete structures. "The thing about concrete is it's very ...

City officials in Napa had long worried that the grand building on the corner of Second and Brown streets -- with its brick walls and giant red-tiled cupolas -- could be devastated by a major ...

An international research group investigated hybrid heat pumps (HHPs) as a technically and economically feasible solution to decarbonizing heat supply in old residential buildings and found that it ...

Mayor Gavin Newsom's second attempt at encouraging property owners to voluntarily retrofit vulnerable buildings was endorsed by the city's Planning Commission on Thursday. The proposal would expedite ...

LOS ANGELES --Thousands of older wood and concrete apartment buildings that would be vulnerable to collapse in a major earthquake would get costly upgrades under sweeping retrofitting rules passed ...

SEATTLE -- A major earthquake is expected to hit Seattle, but according to the city more than 1,000 buildings are in need of major retrofitting. On Monday, the Seattle City Council heard from their ...

Click here if you are unable to view this gallery on a mobile device. OAKLAND — To prevent hundreds of multi-story, wood-frame apartment buildings from collapsing ...