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 ...

A 10-story building looms above UC San Diego’s earthquake shake table near Scripps Ranch. Next week, the device will simulate an earthquake to see whether a structure made from a lightweight, recycled ...

Some buildings don't just stand there. They push back. Whether it's the stomach-dropping view through a glass floor, the ...

Although the earthquake that shook New York City and the surrounding region on Friday didn’t cause systemic damage, it left many residents wondering how the city’s buildings would fare under stronger ...

In Vancouver’s False Creek Flats, a 10-story mass timber office tower called the Hive has been completed with an innovative seismic design that allows it to flex and re-center during earthquakes.

In Dir City, Pakistan, the majority of structures are non-engineered and old, and were built by local masons. Based on the Building Code of Pakistan, the city falls within Seismic Zone III, and these ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, seismic isolation, deformable rolling bearings, low-cost isolation for lightweight structures, triaxial shake table testing, and isolator behavior modeling. Abstract: ...

An earlier version of this page included retrofit information from the city of Los Angeles that contained numerous errors. This story has been updated and buildings from Los Angeles have been removed ...