You've seen pictures and video of the damage from the Napa earthquake. Many of the damaged buildings had previously been retrofitted. When Sunday's 6.0 earthquake rolled through Napa, the city's old ...

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 ...

Sea-level rise and more intense rainfall are increasing the risk of flooding, resulting in crushing insurance rates. Millions of properties are at risk – including about 600,000 in Florida alone – ...

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 ...

A recent study by JLL of 32 global urban centres revealed that the real estate sector accounts for an average 60% of overall carbon emissions, exceeding the World Green Building Council's current ...

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 ...

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 ...

Westminster City Council is to adopt a Retrofit First policy to reduce carbon emissions and boost affordable housing ...