California engineers have developed new design and construction standards to make sure the steel frames of high-rise buildings and other modern structures do not fracture during severe earthquakes.

SAN FRANCISCO — Acting Wednesday on the 95th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, experts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency called for new quake-resistant design and ...

Santa Monica is poised to require safety improvements to as many as 2,000 earthquake-vulnerable buildings in what would be the nation’s most extensive seismic retrofitting effort. Santa Monica’s ...

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An untold number of welded steel moment frame buildings constructed prior to 1994 have yet to be inspected, repaired, or retrofitted in the city of Los Angeles. Michael Rosebrock / Shutterstock Daniel ...

On the 95 anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which levelled nearly 500 city blocks and killed 3,000 people, a U.S. agency has released a study suggesting that some modern steel-framed ...

Welcome to building.co.uk. This site uses cookies. Read our policy. The first and second Steel Insight articles addressed the challenges of realistic cost estimating of structural steelwork through ...

Tubular Buildings are growing in usage as garages with living quarter or Barndominiums, or “barndos”. These buildings are hybrid metal structures that combine living quarters with a shop, barn, or ...