Nowon-gu, Seoul (District Mayor Oh Seung-rok) announced that it is eliminating blind spots in building risk factors through systematic building safety administration. Since the organizational ...

Keywords: Shaking Table Tests, Lightly Reinforced Structures, Joint Confinement, Gravity Load Design, Beam Reinforcement, Reinforced Concrete Structures, Failure Mechanisms, Existing Buildings, ...

When letting agents evaluate properties for landlord portfolios, visible features like kitchen fittings, bathroom suites, and decorative finishes often – How Strong Building Foundations Protect Long-T ...

When recent earthquakes rocked southern Japan, the city of Nomi, around 200 miles west of Tokyo, didn’t feel the tremors. But earthquakes are so common in Japan–more than 800 smaller quakes have been ...

Reporting From San Francisco — Cities across California are struggling with how to convince property owners to retrofit buildings at risk of collapse during a major earthquake. San Francisco this week ...

BEIJING - China has launched a three-year program that aims to examine every school building across the country for safety flaws and reinforce those in earthquake-prone areas for the first step. "We ...