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 ...

Code-based earthquake engineering is on the verge of getting simpler, thanks to the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program’s recommendation to replace the traditional seismic hazard maps with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Acapulco's beachfront condo towers were devastated by Hurricane Otis. Rodrigo Oropeza/AFP via Getty Images Acapulco wasn’t ...

Learn how seismic-resilient bridge design uses advanced materials, curved geometry modeling, shape memory alloys, and performance-based methods to reduce earthquake damage and downtime.

A severe earthquake is a terrifying disaster; only a few seconds of ground shaking can annihilate a vulnerable community. Most deaths occurring during an earthquake are the direct result of the ...

In the aftermath of Tuesday's 5.8-magnitude earthquake in Virginia, building owners in the Washington, D.C., region are accessing potential damage to buildings. Other industry voices are questioning ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday was estimated to be about 500 ...

The earthquake in Haiti prompted a lot of architectural analysis of buildings there, and in megacities around the world. Without proper planning–and stricter building codes–most of the biggest cities ...

This study investigated the seismic response of Rigid Wall-Flexible Roof Diaphragm (RWFD) buildings under extreme ground shaking was studied. RWFD buildings are a type of low-rise industrial ...

Pandemics and wildfires have left earthquakes behind in the threat matrix, but they still loom large. Engineer David Bonowitz has this Perspective on what’s essential in earthquake design. This week ...

Resilience is the ability to bounce back after a disturbance or interruption, or the capacity to withstand, recover from, or adapt to stress, misfortune, or change. By now, design teams are at least ...